Droughts Increase Wildfire Risk Droughts are nature’s way of turning the landscape into a tinderbox. When there is a ...

GOV. TO BREAKING NEWS NOW OUT OF WILKES COUNTY WHERE WE ARE GETTING A LOOK AT A WILDFIRE IN WILKESBORO. A VIEWER SHARING THIS VIDEO WITH US. THAT FIRE IS VISIBLE FROM HIGHWAY 421. AND HERE’S A ...

More than four years after a wildfire burned more than ten times the annual mean of land in Sweden, a burnt boreal forest’s soil has yet to recover, a group of researchers recently found.

A contained wildfire is one that still burns but is no longer spreading, while a controlled fire has been extinguished. The forest service was continuously updating an interactive map to chart the ...

The fire, in a forested area of the coastal city of Ofunato, killed at least one person and prompted evacuation orders for thousands of residents. By Jin Yu Young and Hisako Ueno Hisako Ueno repor ...

HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. FIREFIGHTERS SAFETY AND HEALTH IS TAKING A FRONT SEAT AT AN ANNUAL MEETING THAT EXAMINES WILDFIRE PREPAREDNESS AND RESPONSE. THANKS FOR JOINING US AT NOON. I’M LISA GONZALEZ.

The fire that became known as the Covington Drive Fire has continued to burn near Myrtle Beach. It is one of the largest among more than 175 wildfires that have now erupted across South Carolina ...

HORRY COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF) - First responders across South Carolina have descended on the Carolina Forest area to help battle a massive wildfire. Residents from several neighborhoods, including ...

Officials who work with Alberta Wildfire say current conditions lead them to believe this year’s wildfire season will be easier to manage than the last two seasons and they hope the weather ...

In an update to its map Wednesday afternoon, the South Carolina Forestry Commission said the wildfire is now 44% contained. The fire remains at 2,059 acres, per the agency. Just after 4:30 p.m ...

Republican Senator Tim Sheehy of Montana and Democratic Senator Alex Padilla of California recently introduced a Senate bill that would create the “National Wildland Fire Service.” The bill ...