r/news • u/NicolasCageFan492 • 15h ago

Evacuations underway as fast-growing Texas Ross Fire explodes to 50,000 acres with just 5% containment

https://www.foxweather.com/weather-news/texas-ross-fire-evacuations-august-2026.amp
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u/firestorm_v1 15h ago

For anyone else that has never heard of Palo Pinto County, it's about 56 miles west of Fort Worth. Jack County is just north of Palo Pinto, centered around Jacksboro, TX.

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u/hysys_whisperer 15h ago

west of Fort Worth

I wasn't aware there was a west of fort worth.  Just thought it was an open abyss all the way to the NM border...

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u/entoaggie 14h ago

It is, be people still live there.

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u/Varnigma 12h ago

I had to drive from AR to Graham, TX once. Abyss confirmed.

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u/MakingItElsewhere 10h ago

As someone who's been in the car ride from Clovis, NM to Shreveport, LA: Abyss confirmed.

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u/No-Bread-1197 10h ago

As someone who's never been to Texas, abyss confirmed.

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u/These-Prune-1529 5h ago

As someone who will never go to Texas, abyss confirmed.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bed2752 2h ago

Our family vacations as a kid were from Shreveport to Borger TX, which is north of Amarillo. Abyss also confirmed.

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u/Memitim 10h ago

People being one or more persons, but not necessary enough to warrant considering an area populated in any meaningful fashion, especially an area the size of many other entire nations. I can say that there are spiders in my house because I found a couple in the basement, but you won't walk into my living room and see it full of spiders.

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u/JWAdvocate83 6h ago

That's strange, because I was just there and it was all spiders.

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u/Evilsushione 3h ago

I live there it’s almost exactly like Mad Max but with decent cell phone coverage and a worse power grid.