{"id":473696,"date":"2026-10-22T19:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473696\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T19:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T19:32:15","slug":"burn-bans-in-southeast-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/473696\/","title":{"rendered":"Burn bans in Southeast Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jefferson County is the latest county in Southeast Texas to implement a burn ban effective 2:30 pm, Oct 22. County Judge Jeff Branick told The Examiner the Keetch Byrum drought index numbers are up leading to extreme dry conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Other area counties under burn bans include Chambers, Jasper, Newton, and Tyler. 147 of the 254 counties in Texas are under burn bans.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone whose county is not under a burn ban are asked to use extreme caution and have a bucket of water or a hose nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jefferson County is the latest county in Southeast Texas to implement a burn ban effective 2:30 pm, Oct&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-473696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473696","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=473696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}