{"id":425525,"date":"2026-09-03T23:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425525\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:50:17","slug":"possible-lightning-strike-sparks-house-fire-in-northwest-harris-county-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/425525\/","title":{"rendered":"Possible lightning strike sparks house fire in northwest Harris County, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deputies are assisting firefighters at a Shadow Wind Drive home as storms move through the area.<\/p>\n

Harris County Precinct 4 deputies and Cy-Fair Fire Department are responding to a residential fire in the 8300 block of Shadow Wind Drive that may have been sparked by lightning amid passing storms. (Harris County Precinct 4 Constable’s Office)<\/p>\n

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas \u2013 Harris County Precinct 4 deputies are helping the Cy-Fair Fire Department respond to a residential fire in the 8300 block of Shadow Wind Drive. Officials said the blaze may have been caused by lightning as thunderstorms pass through the region.<\/p>\n

Firefighters remain at the scene. Drivers and residents are asked to avoid the area and use caution near emergency crews. <\/p>\n

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About the AuthorChristian Hudspeth<\/a><\/p>\n

Christian Hudspeth is a Houston native who joined KPRC 2 News in December 2025. Christian began his news career at KTRK in 2022 before moving to newsrooms in Waco, Texas (KXXV), Las Vegas, Nevada (KTNV), and now back to H-Town. He earned his BA at the University of Houston Jack J. Valenti School of Communication in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies are assisting firefighters at a Shadow Wind Drive home as storms move through the area. Harris County…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[20264,3002,405,23324,56,58,57,35819,2384,172],"class_list":["post-425525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-cy-fair-fire-department","tag-fires","tag-harris-county","tag-harris-county-precinct-4-constables-office","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-lightning","tag-storms","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}