The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Fire comes amid battle over $90m ‘Cop City’ project that opponents say will lead to more racist policing

Over the past two decades, a staggering 21.8 million Americans found themselves living within 3 miles (5 kilometers) of a large wildfire. Most of those residents would have had to evacuate, and many would have been exposed to smoke and emotional trauma from the fire.

Police in Cambridge have named the mum and her two children who died in a tragic fire which broke out at a flat on Friday morning, which has also left a fourth person critically injured

More than 50 firefighters worked through the night to fight the ferocious flames at Bede Industrial Estate in Jarrow

U.S. Forest Service managers are urging people in the drought-stricken Southwest to forgo the fireworks this July Fourth, suggesting instead that cans of red, white and blue Silly String could be used to celebrate

Weather probably milder than previous summers but wet winter spurred growth in grasses and vegetation that is ‘ready to burn’

As smoky as the summer has been so far, scientists say it will likely be worse in future years because of climate change

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Alaska is off to the slowest start of a wildfire season in three decades -- an immense relief one year after fires scorched an area roughly equivalent to the state of Connecticut

New sensors "smell" fires before they ignite, rather than relying on cameras

As Canadian wildfire smoke blanketed Chicago on Tuesday and Wednesday, the Windy City earned the unwelcome distinction of having the “worst air quality of any major city in the world,” according to federal Air Quality Index readings. Authorities issued warnings instructing residents to stay indoors if possible or don masks…