BRAZOS COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - The Brazos County Commissioner’s Court voted Tuesday to enact a burn ban after more than five weeks without rainfall.

The ban was voted on under advice from Brazos County Emergency Management Coordinator Jason Ware .

Brazos County Commissioners Court placed the county under a burn ban during Tuesday's morning meeting (Gray Media)

“Wildfires can start very easy,” he said. “With these periodic cool fronts that are coming through, the humidity drops, the wind tends to be a little breezy during the daytime, and the conditions are very ripe for a wildfire or a grass fire.”

Over the last seven days, Ware said there have been about five grass fires that have burned 10 to 15 acres of land and two structures.

“In two of those fires, there was a house that was

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