Wildfires

Maui suing cellphone carriers over alerts it says people never got about deadly wildfires

Honolulu — Had emergency responders known about widespread cellphone outages during the height of la...

us | 5 months ago

New Mexico village of Ruidoso orders residents to evacuate due to raging wildfire: "GO NOW"

Residents of the southern New Mexico village of Ruidoso were ordered to flee their homes Monday with...

us | 3 months ago

Firefighters battling fierce New Mexico wildfires may get help from Mother Nature

Roswell, N.M. — Cooler weather — and possibly rain — could bring some relief this week to firefighte...

us | 3 months ago

Extreme wildfire risk has doubled in the past 20 years, new study shows, as climate change accelerates

Summer has just begun and already the 2024 wildfire season is off to a destructive start. Nearly 20,...

us | 3 months ago

Park Fire in Northern California explodes in its first day

A wildfire that started Wednesday afternoon in a park near Chico, California, north of Sacramento, g...

us | 2 months ago

Raging wildfire reaches resort town of Jasper in Canadian Rockies' largest national park

Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada — One of two raging wildfires menacing the town of Jasper in the Cana...

world | 2 months ago

Oregon's wildfire grew so large it created its own weather system. Here's how that can happen.

Oregon's Durkee Fire — the largest active blaze in the U.S. — has burned more than 268,500 acres of ...

us | 2 months ago

Thousands of firefighters battle to contain California's Park Fire, other western blazes

Fire crews in Northern California are racing to contain the so-called Park Fire that has scorched mo...

us | 2 months ago

The Park Fire is now one of California's largest on record as it burns area nearly half the size of Rhode Island

A burning car that authorities say was pushed into a gully less than a week ago has now sparked one ...

us | 2 months ago

Jasper National Park's largest wildfire in a century destroys a third of Canadian town — and could continue for months

The wildfire that has been ravaging an area of Canada known as the world's second-largest dark sky p...

world | 2 months ago

See the mother bear and her cubs that survived Jasper National Park's largest wildfire in 100 years by hiding

Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, is facing the largest wildfire it has seen in a century. Bu...

world | 2 months ago

California wildfire activity is 2,816% higher this year – and already spawned one of the largest in state history

The Park Fire tearing across Northern California is destroying homes and burning up land – and its d...

us | 2 months ago

Satellite images show Maui recovering, a year after deadly wildfires

New satellite images show the scale of damage almost one year after deadly wildfires ripped through ...

us | 2 months ago