The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Firefighters are battling to control a huge wildfire in France that has forced at least 10,000 people to evacuate their homes.

Mark Hardingham, National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC), said the combination of prolonged dry weather and high temperatures had created an “unprecedented” risk that blazes could spread

People are being urged not to use barbecues in the countryside and to be careful when disposing cigarettes and glass bottles

London Fire Brigade's control room sent firefighters to deal with 340 grass, rubbish and open land fires during the first week of this month as the country bakes in another heatwave

A huge fire tornado swept across part of California on Wednesday, August 11. Firefighters managed to get it under control but the state has been affected by serious fires in recent weeks

European nations sent firefighting teams to help France tackle a "monster" wildfire on Thursday, while forest blazes also raged in Spain and Portugal and the head of the European Space Agency urged immediate action to combat climate change.

More than 1,000 firefighters were struggling Thursday to contain a major wildfire which has burned a large area of pine forest in southwestern France, in a region that was already ravaged by flames last month. Local authorities said more than 68 square kilometers (26 square miles) have burned since Tuesday…

Two huge fires destroyed more than 20,000 hectares of forests in the same region that forced close to half a million people to flee their homes near Bordeaux, France

As French officials warned Thursday that flare-ups could cause a massive wildfire to further spread in the country's parched southwest, President Emmanuel Macron tweeted that five more European allies are providing help for firefighters battling eight major wildfires across the country.