Last year’s Anderson Creek Wildfire was the biggest known wildfire in Kansas’s history, burning 390,000 acres of land in Oklahoma and Kansas and killing hundreds of cattle, destroying millions of dollars worth of buildings and fences, and endangering the lives of hundreds of residents and volunteer firefighters.

And conditions are present that could make wildfires even more prevalent in 2017.

On Thursday, several wildfires burned across southwest Kansas and the Texas panhandle but emergency responders contained the blazes, preventing them from spreading despite high winds and dry conditions.

Read the full article here.