To put the Crabapple Fire burn scar in perspective, when overlaid over San Antonio, it’s the equivalent of a burned area from roughly St. Mary’s University through downtown, then to the Frost Bank Center.
KSAT used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to create a comparison relative to Bexar County. See the map below.
Fire danger continues
More dry and windy conditions this week with Wednesday standing out as the most extreme fire danger risk for South Central Texas.
At that point, our exceptional drought, along with wind gusts up to 35 mph and relative humidity under 10%, will quickly spread any fire that develops.
Also, those conditions make it very easy for a fire to start from something as simple as a carelessly discarded cigarette or parking a vehicle on tall grass.
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