COLLEGE STATION – (WBAP/KLIF) With 192 wildfires fought across the state of Texas in just the past seven days time, Texas A & M Forest Service suggests a particularly difficult wildfire season may be ahead again this year, and urges Texans to be ready with an evacuation plan.
Spokesman Alex Bregenzer suggests Texans can help prevent damage to their homes and buildings by clearing dry vegetation from property, keeping vegetation near homes and buildings to a minimum, and agrees that fire retardant type landscaping may be a more preventative option against wildfires than lush lawns most areas aspire too.
Of thirteen large wildfires – with additional smaller ones – currently burning through Texas, there are seven major wildfires currently burning from the Panhandle down through the coast. The largest currently is the Borrega Fire in Kleberg County, South Texas, near Kingsville. Roughly 60-thousand acres in size, with little contained. Bregenzer says the 2022 Wildfire Season in Texas is shaping up in a way that mimics the 2011 fire season, with heavy spring and summer rains leading to heavy vegetative growth, providing more fuel to burn during the following winter, spring and summer seasons.
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