UPDATE: At least three more wildfires have been reported today by the Texas Forest Service.
An eight-acre wildfire is reported about eight miles east of Centerville in Leon County and is zero percent contained.
In Bowie County, a three-acre fire northeast of DeKalb is not contained, but a two-acre fire near Hooks and Interstate 30 is contained.
UPDATE: As of 4:45 p.m., a second noncontained fire has kick started in Camp County.
This latest fire is near U.S. 271 in the Pine community near the Camp-Upshur County line.
UPDATE: The Texas Forest Service is reporting a active fire in Camp County.
The fire, now measured at three acres, is near Camp CRs 3512 and 3514 in the Leesburg community between Winnsboro and Pittsburg. The fire is zero percent contained, according to the forest service.
Firefighters also battled a one-acre fire in Cherokee County west of Wells near the Neches River. That fire is completely contained.
EAST TEXAS: Several agencies are warning East Texans of high fire dangers over the 24-hour plus period.
According to the National Weather Service in Shreveport, "Very hot and dry conditions will continue across the area today, as many will reach the century mark this afternoon. Minimum relative humidity values will range from 25 to 35 percent, but winds will be light helping to lessen the fire danger today. Widely scattered shower and thunderstorm activity will be possible this afternoon, but a cold front will move into the area around midnight and increase the chance for shower and thunderstorm activity across the Interstate 30 corridor. The front will move into the Interstate 20 corridor by daybreak Saturday, with gusty northerly winds of 10
to 20 mph behind the front."
In the past seven days, the Texas Forest Service has been involved in 30 fires that have torched 567 acres of land and property - all east of Interstate 45. Seven of those fires occurred between Crockett and Woodville, while a 20-acre fire was reported Thursday in Anderson County.
Fire departments have battled 44 fires statewide in the past week, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
A Texas A&M University research group has determined that much of northeast Texas - everything north of a line from Carthage to Kilgore to Tyler to Canton to Huffman - is under high fire danger for the next 24 hours. "Very high" fire danger is forecast for areas in Cass, Bowie, Morris, Franklin, Red River, Hunt, Rains and Hopkins counties.
