The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Seemingly cost-effective methods could pose dangers

Staffordshire's Chief Fire Officer, Rob Barber, has highlighted potential dangers from cheaper ways that people might try to keep themselves warm this winter - which could lead to blazes

Climate crisis has upped the ante in the state where progress has been hampered despite a considerable budget allocation

DENVER — Lodgepole pines grow thick in mountain foothill forests west of Denver. Government-backed loggers cut down thousands. This left a hole across several acres of the popular Flying J Ranch Park that, close up, looks to visitors more like mowing than thinning.

Federal investigators have taken possession of a Pacific Gas and Electric Co. utility transmission pole and attached equipment in their probe into the cause of a Northern California fire that has become the largest in the state this year

A recent study found forests were more likely to burn during the regrowth period.

The release by a Greta Thunberg-inspired activist group was timed with the global climate strike protests launching Friday

Recent record fire seasons in the west have increased pollution across the country, affecting people’s health, scientists say

DENVER — A wildfire in Waterton Canyon, sparked by rodents chewing on live wires in an electrical box, was doused by firefighters with West Metro Fire and Rescue.