A home under construction that just missed the damage from wildfires near Possum Kingdom Lake. There is now growing fear that this wildfire may get as far as Fort Worth - one of Texas' largest cities with nearly 750,000 residents.
The Texas Forest Service undertook a series of 'controlled burns' at the weekend to get rid of fuel on the mountains around McDonald Observatory, seen right
A running wildfire encroaches on a large home in Strawn, Texas. Dozens of area homes have been destroyed in the wildfires
Texas State Troopers Aaron Lewis and Greg Sullivan open a gate to allow livestock to escape in Graford as smoke billows out behind them. Texas usually receives up to 15 inches of rain a year but in the last six months it has seen just 13-hundredths of an inch in the west of the state.
Texas firefighters continue to battle blazes that have scorched a million acres and have been burning for more than a week, according to the Texas Forest Service.
170 homes have been destroyed.