The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

As increasingly explosive fire seasons ravage the country, federal firefighters say their employer is exacerbating exhaustion by misclassifying their jobs

The Line Fire, sparked Sunday, is threatening some 65,000 buildings

Images of towering wildfires tearing through forests and leaving a national park in cinders have kept many tourists away, putting one of Canada's top industries on edge.

Fire is a natural part of Australian ecosystems. Many plants have developed ways to adapt and even thrive after fire. They may store their seeds in the soil, ready to sprout after fire. Or they may flower after fire, which helps them to produce the next generation of seeds.

The fire burned in the San Bernardino mountains area and consumed more than 21,000 acres.

California’s Line fire, only 3% contained, has charred more than 21,000 acres as temperatures soar into triple digits

Queensland is preparing its aerial firefighting fleet ahead of the high bushfire risk warning across spring and summer.

Lord Macdonald warns of likely delays in criminal justice system as survivors denounce ‘arrogant’ building firms

As Britain absorbs the second phase of the report into the Grenfell Tower inferno, with its accumulation of horrors, an event last week serves as warning and a rebuke to the pace with which we have got here. Is it really possible, seven years after that disaster, that the cause…

Firefighters battling a wildfire near South Dakota’s second-largest city caught a big break Wednesday — from the weather

A report on the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century details steps communities can take to reduce the likelihood that grassland wildfires will turn into urban conflagrations