“This year [has been] as close as we’ve been to the conditions of 1947.” ...

Eleven years ago, almost 100,000 acres of forest burned in the American River watershed, according to the Placer County Water ...

A bout of dry weather in the Northeast has fueled wildfire conditions in New Jersey, with several fires burning in the state.

Currently, 11 counties in the Brazos Valley are under a burn ban, meaning outdoor burning is absolutely prohibited.

Local mitigation groups call staged water one more tool in a layered defense. The Hawaii Wildfire Management Organization ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

According to the forest service map, the fire in the northern part of the county and it is currently not contained at all.

A before-and-after study of wildfires in the Plumas National Forest compared private timber land with public lands. The results: The orderly arrangement of trees planted for logging leads to more ...

The Green Fire spread rapidly north of Lake Shasta, pushed by hot and dry gusty winds and very dry vegetation — prompting the county to warn of health risks from heavy smoke and to issue an evacuation ...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KRQE) — The Lincoln National Forest is planning to carry out some prescribed burns over the next couple of days. As long as weather permits, these burns would happen on July 4, 5, ...

SO THE RAIN HAS STOPPED FOR A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT’S BEEN A PRETTY WET EVENING HERE AT MICHAUX STATE FOREST. BUT IT HASN’T STOPPED CREWS FROM WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO STOP TWO FIRES THAT HAS BURNED ...