The largest of the blazes, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, is now the biggest in state history, having burned over 1 million acres.
The vicious wildfires that rapidly spread across the Texas Panhandle over the past week have been captured in NASA satellite images.The fires had burned over 1.2 million acres as of Tuesday. A single blaze in Hutchinson County, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, has scorched 1,059,570 acres alone, as of Wednesday, and is 44 percent contained by firefighters, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. On Tuesday, the fire was only 37 percent contained.
The fires have claimed two lives: Joyce Blankenship, who died in her home in Stinnett, and Cindy Owens, who was driving in Hemphill County. The blazes have also killed over 3,600 cattle, as the Panhandle is home to 85 percent of Texas' 12 million cattle population.'This is calving season across the U.S.
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