We live near FM902 and FM3496 in Cooke Co (Gainesville).
My farm is just a few miles from where you live. I've never seen it this dry, although 1980 came close.
That drought broke with a nice 10 inch rain the last weekend in September. Ten inches, no runoff, just absorbed fully and gratefully by a parched land.
For North Texans --
http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/010206kvuewildfires2-eh.3ac9f59f.html
More news on North TX fires:
Ringgold - destroyed
Nocona - the fire zagged!
Eastland County - still burning
Kokomo - destroyed
Carbon, Gorman, Desdemona - all evacuated - Eastland Co
TX Panhandle - 6700 acres in Donley Co near 70 homes
Mineral Wells - 6 homes burned; 1800 acres in Parker Co
Benbrook - Tarrant Co - 2 fires, now controlled, on vacant property
White Settlement - apartments and homes had been threatened, but no danger now, as all fire fuel has burned already
Cross Plains - Callahan Co - fires still burning in and around the town that had two deaths and lost dozens of homes earlier in the week