The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

For most of the past decade, forecasters have been able to use satellites to track these smoke plumes, but the view was only two-dimensional

Canyon fire in Ventura county, north of Los Angeles, is 25% contained but still growing, officials say

Satellite images revealed the scope of destruction in the south of France where an area larger than the country's capital Paris has been turned into ashes by a massive wildfire.

French authorities said Friday that they were counting on better weather conditions to help put out the country's biggest wildfire in at least half a century after firefighters finally managed to bring it under control.

The largest wildfire France has seen in nearly 80 years – ripping through forests, villages and vineyards in the southern Aude department – has been contained, but officials warn it will keep burning for days. Among the hardest-hit areas is the Corbières wine region, where flames destroyed vineyards already weakened…

The inferno devastated an area of southern France the size of Paris after erupting on Tuesday afternoon

Firefighters in France have contained the country's largest wildfire in decades

The Canyon Fire north of Los Angeles grew to over 1,050 acres in less than three hours

French firefighters continue to battle the spread of a wildfire in the south of the country that has left one person dead and burnt 17,000 hectares since Tuesday. It's the country's biggest blaze since 1949, according to the Minister for Ecological Transition, Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

The fire has already swept through an area one and a half times the size of Paris

France is battling its largest wildfire in decades, which has already burned more than 60 square miles in the south and killed one person