( CNN ) -- Numerous wildfires were roaring Thursday through parts of Oklahoma and Texas , engulfing one town and searing neighborhoods in others , including one in Oklahoma City . Hurricane-force winds continued to kick the flames even higher . Firefighters in Bowie , Texas , try to get a grass fire under control . Bowie is about 70 miles northwest of Fort Worth . The fires had engulfed so many miles of turf , and flying embers had sparked in so many different places , that hours after the first blazes were reported Thursday morning , safety officials still were n't sure how many fires they were facing . In Texas , the 100-person town of Stoneburg was `` burned over , '' by a 25,000-acre fire said Texas Forest Service spokeswoman Misty Wilburn . The town , northwest of Dallas near the Oklahoma state line , had been evacuated , she said . Seventy-five to 100 homes had been destroyed in Oklahoma , and 13 people were confirmed injured -- two of them critically , according to emergency officials . Watch homes in Oklahoma burn » . Wilburn said Texas authorities were working at least nine major fires Thursday evening , seven in the west of the state and two in the north . `` Everything we have is committed to fires , '' she said . `` Everyone is maxed out . '' Feeding the flames were strong winds that were gusting as high as 76 mph , the strength of a Category 1 hurricane , and grounding many emergency aircraft that ca n't fly safely in those conditions . On the southwest side of Oklahoma City , fires had engulfed eight homes , and were believed to be destroying many more . In Choctaw , Oklahoma , dozens of homes had been destroyed , and the high school was on the verge of burning , police dispatcher Silva Schneider said just before 8 p.m. Aerial video footage of the central Oklahoma city of about 9,000 people showed row after row of houses in several different neighborhoods engulfed in flames . The Oklahoma towns of Velma , Sparks , Wellston , Healdton and Midwest City , a suburb of Oklahoma City , had all been ordered into mandatory evacuations because of the fires , which officials say are finding plenty of easy fuel because of dry conditions throughout the Southwest . `` It 's a bad day in Oklahoma , '' said Albert Ashwood , director of the state 's emergency management department . Grass fires were being reported west of the Dallas-Fort Worth area , with the smell of smoke already wafting through the cities . Ashwood said weather experts fear that heavy winds as night falls could drive the wildfires into more heavily populated areas . A spokesman for the Texas Forest Service said fires in the state were burning in numerous counties in areas near Fort Worth , Wichita Falls and Amarillo . Watch video of wildfires in Bowie , Texas » . He said there were so many blazes that firefighters were having to ignore some of them , and that winds were so high that most fire-fighting aircraft were unable to fly . The National Weather Service had categorized much of Texas and Oklahoma an `` extremely critical fire weather area '' Thursday because of the dry conditions and winds . Large portions of western and central Texas and western Oklahoma are in a drought , according to the service . A firefighter who was working near Lindsey , Oklahoma , was in critical condition with third-degree burns over 35 percent of his body , according to a hospital spokeswoman . A motorist in Oklahoma also was hospitalized after driving into an area with heavy smoke , authorities said . iReport.com : Are wildfires affecting you ? While the blazes seemed overwhelming in spots , firefighters were making some progress on some fronts . In Breckenridge , Texas , a fire that started in an old landfill and burned several hundred acres had been contained just north of the city limits , according to fire officials . But even as that blaze came under control , the fire department received reports of another fire . Wilburn said that as nightfall approached , Texas had been able to get some firefighting aircraft in the air and that five of the fires were at least partially contained . CNN 's Hank Bishop and Aaron Cooper contributed to this report .
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