Travis County Commissioners Court extended its burn ban in unincorporated areas of the county until Oct. 3.

The county measures moisture using the Keetch-Byram Drought Index, a scale where zero represents saturation and 800 represents a complete lack of moisture.

During the court's Sept. 4 meeting, Travis County Fire Marshal Hershel Lee said that the county average was 581, with some areas of the county measuring as high as 708.

Lee said that moisture is decreasing, and there is a significant amount of so-called small fuels such as grasses and brush.

A bit of good news, he added, is that the county's average of lack of moisture is increasing at a slower rate than earlier in the summer.

Lee said the short-term forecast called for near-record temperatures around 100–103 degrees and low humidity.

Commissioner Karen Huber said that the survivors of the 2011 Spicewood wildfires were nervous.

"We need to stay on top of the burn ban," she said.