Already this month, almost 123,000 acres have burned across the state, according to data provided by the Texas A&M Forest Service. Story by TexasTribune.
The fire in Eastland County was unusually intense, experts said, because of a weather phenomenon known as a Southern Plains Wildfire Outbreak, or, which is characterized by dry vegetation, dry west-southwest winds, low humidity, above-average temperatures and sunny skies. Since 2005, SPWO fires have accounted for only 3% of wildfires reported in Texas but almost half of the total acres burned.
Climate change is playing a role in this hot and dry spring, said John Nielsen-Gammon, the state climatologist. The average daily minimum and maximum temperatures in Texas have both increased by 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last 125 years, with nearly half the increase since 2000, according to a 2021 report by Nielsen-Gammon. The state just saw itsUnlike much of the West, Texas has two fire seasons: one in the late summer and fall growing season, when temperatures are typically highest and one in the dormant season between winter and spring, when vegetation is dead, dormant or very dry.
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