Texas is battling the largest wildfire in the history of the state and the second largest on record in the US, as a series of blazes ripped across the state’s north-west in unusually dry conditions after a warm winter.
The Smokehouse Creek fire, which broke out on Monday, had spread to cover almost 1.1mn acres on Thursday, surpassing the massive East Amarillo Complex fire in 2006, which scorched almost 1mn acres.
The West Odessa fire department said the fire was the second largest in US history. The area of land affected so far is exceeded only by the 1825 Miramichi fire, which burnt 3mn acres in eastern Canada and the state of Maine, according to a list compiled by the Western Fire Chiefs Association.
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