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.
