1 in 6 Americans live in areas with significant wildfire risk
The nonprofit First Street Foundation built a model that calculates wildfire risk down to street level. It reveals a danger spread unevenly across the U.S.
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Massive New Mexico wildfire grows, but Taos safe for now VIEW
More people in northern New Mexico are being warned they might have to flee as the largest wildfire burning in the United States heads toward...
‘Dire’ fire conditions persist in Southwest as blazes grow
Bone-dry and windy conditions combine for a dangerous scenario in New Mexico and Colorado. It's also bad in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Arizona.
Fighting fire with fire: WA resuming prescribed burns on public lands
State and federal agencies in the West have pushed hard to bring prescribed fires back, saying they're essential to fight wildfires and restore healthy forests.
No more s’mores: Is this the end of campfires in Colorado?
Campfires hold a special place not just across the West but also in American lore. But with worsening droughts and devastating wildfire seasons, they're often...
Fire crews close in around massive New Mexico wildfire VIEW
Firefighters in New Mexico built fire lines and cleared brush on the fringes of the largest wildfire burning in the U.S.
Heavy rains weren’t enough to stop winter fires in California
Heavy rainfall in the final three months of 2021 had many hoping the threat of fire would lessen for at least the next few months....
Thousands of homes burned in most destructive wildfire in Colorado history
The raging inferno that erupted in Boulder County, Colorado, on Thursday afternoon was fueled by an extreme set of atmospheric conditions, intensified by climate change,...
Wildfires torched up to a fifth of all giant sequoia trees
Fires in and near Sequoia National Park over the past two seasons have killed nearly a fifth of the earth's largest trees. The giant sequoias...