The 150-acre fire started after a tree fell on a power line on Bat Cave Road in Old Fort, an area already recovering from ...

In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California homeowners keep helmets and fire hoses handy.

Santa Anas are those desiccating winds that occur commonly in winter, blowing out of Nevada and Utah and into southwestern ...

The 250-acre fire started after a tree fell on a power line on Bat Cave Road in Old Fort, an area already recovering from Helene.

With increasingly hot weather and topographical features that resemble those in parts of Southern California, the booming ...

Rather, it refers to how much of a perimeter has been established around an active fire, preventing it from growing and engulfing ... according to the Western Fire Chiefs Association, a nonprofit ...

The fires that have destroyed 12,000 structures and killed at least 25 people in the Los Angeles area are on a scale that hasn’t happened in Western Washington. Given the right circumstances, they ...

Violent infernos are most common in the western states ... a new generation of seedlings to grow. In fact, some species of trees, like sequoias, rely on fire for their seeds to even open.

The field is small but growing, reflecting recent studies that suggest the frequency of extreme fires has more than doubled since 2023. The growth has been led by terrible fires in the western ...

James Whitehead is an engagement analyst at Simon Fraser University’s Centre for Dialogue’s Mitigating Wildfire Initiative ...

Catastrophic wildfire is not exclusively a problem for communities surrounded by National Forests. Nor is there a confined ...