The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

A wildfire has burned down more than 600 rai of forest in Doi Tung mountain in Chiang Rai, which locals have billed as the worst such disaster in two decades.

Last year, 66,255 wildfires erupted in the U.S., burning through more than 7.3 million acres from California to the Florida Panhandle. It was the most fires since 2017, and those were the ones that were reported. The final count is bound to be higher.

(This March 30 story has been refiled to remove incorrect temperature conversion in paragraph 7)

LOS ANGELES — For most Californians, the sight of aircraft spewing neon pink liquid over flaming trees and brush has become a hallmark of aggressive wildfire suppression campaigns — if not a potent symbol of government's struggle to control increasingly destructive forest fires.

Firefighter Manuel Rubio had never seen a blaze like the one that raged for the past week in eastern Spain

The parish volunteer who started a fire that severely damaged the 15th Century Gothic cathedral in the western French city of Nantes in 2020 has been sentenced to four years in prison for arson.

Climate experts say the wildfire season might be delayed in some parts of the Southwestern U.S. because of a deluge of winter moisture

Last year saw the local car parks overflowing and numerous devastating moor fires started by BBQs

More than 100,000 hectares burned in MacDonnell Ranges area, which has been declared a federal priority for threatened species conservation