Authorities say a Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died while fighting a house fire.

Authorities say a Texas fire chief whose small town was among the hardest hit last week by historic blazes sweeping across the Panhandle died while fighting a house fire.

Rural Texans are more than twice as likely to go without homeowners insurance than their urban peers.

Shaken by the devastation, families find comfort in each other as they pick through the rubble and commune at a church in nearby Borger.

Texas has a wildfire season in winter, but climate change is extending it, scientists say.

The small town of Fritch is again picking through the rubble of a Texas wildfire, a decade after another destructive blaze burned hundreds of homes and left deep scars in the Panhandle community.

A series of wildfires in the Texas Panhandle has devastated communities in at least 60 counties this week, and one of them has swelled to become the second-largest in state history.