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OKLAHOMA Wildfire Disaster - EVERYTHING About 283K Acres BURNED!

#oklahomawildfires #rangeroafire #oklahomapanhandle Oklahoma wildfire update 2026. The largest wildfire in Oklahoma history is burning across the Panhandle right now — and the weather station that predicted it melted before firefighters could arrive. On February 17th, 2026, the Ranger Road Fire ignited southeast of Beaver, Oklahoma, and within hours had consumed more ground than any single fire in the state's recorded history. 283,283 acres burned. 15 percent contained. Three separate fires running simultaneously across Beaver, Texas, and Woodward counties. A seven-vehicle pileup on US-54 near Tyrone caused by wildfire smoke. 4,000 people evacuated from Woodward alone. And the fire jumped the state line into Kansas, where ranchers who spent eight years rebuilding herds from the 2017 Starbuck Fire watched the same ground burn again. The Oklahoma Mesonet station in Woodward recorded every condition that predicted this fire — relative humidity dropping into single digits, wind gusts climbing past 60 miles per hour, fuel moisture falling to three percent. Then the fire arrived. The instruments melted. The station went dark. Matt Lehenbauer, Woodward's emergency management director, said the fire arrived before firefighters did. Marcus Stephenson, the city's fire marshal, identified the accelerant the national coverage is missing — eastern red cedar, an invasive species that has colonized millions of acres of Oklahoma grassland and burns like gasoline, throwing embers hundreds of metres ahead of the fire front. The 43 Road Fire rode those cedars straight into Woodward's city limits. Three volunteer firefighters from the Rosston Fire Department were thrown from their tanker truck during the Ranger Road response — Chris Campbell with burns to both arms, Randy Masters with a plate and screws in his foot, Jake Edwards with a brain bleed transported to OU Medical Center. A Follett volunteer suffered 17 cracked ribs. Two Ashland-area firefighters were airlifted to Wichita. Every one of them is a volunteer. In Clark County, Kansas, rancher Stan Gardiner told reporters he had just been made whole from the 2017 Starbuck Fire losses — last week. Then the Ranger Road Fire crossed into his county and killed 300 more head of cattle during calving season. Red flag warnings remain in effect across nearly the entire state. The conditions that produced this fire have not changed. For business inquiries, copyright concerns, or other questions, please reach out to us at: vaha7212@gmail.com Copyright Disclaimer: - Under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for FAIR USE for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statutes that might otherwise be infringing. Non-Profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of FAIR USE. This video may include copyrighted material that has not been explicitly authorized by the copyright owner(s). However, we believe that our use qualifies as fair use under applicable copyright laws. If you are the rights holder and believe otherwise, please contact us, and we will take the necessary steps to resolve the issue.