The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

A ranching family in Oregon is applauding the arrest of the leader of a U.S. Forest Service crew that carried out a prescribed burn in a national forest that spread onto the family’s property

A wildfire that destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and businesses in suburban Denver last winter caused more than $2 billion in losses, making it by far the costliest in Colorado history

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Admirers of California’s Sierra Nevada mountains are familiar with the swaths of blackened trees flanking its sprawling green forest ranges. A new University of California, Berkeley study quantifies that devastation, finding nearly a third of southern Sierra conifer forests have died in the last decade.

Failure to cut carbon emissions means ‘rapid transformation of societies’ is only option to limit impacts, report says

Police have launched an investigation after the blaze ripped through the derelict building on Saturday night, and say they are treating the incident as wilful and appealed for witnesses.

Prairie fires pushed by winds topping 60 mph led to evacuations in eastern Nebraska and western Iowa and destroyed homes and injured two firefighters south of Nebraska's capital city

A man who was unaccounted for after a house fire at Cooranbong has been located safe and well as fire investigators work to determine the cause of the blaze.

SEATTLE — Rain and winds in the Seattle area are a welcome relief as they pushed out wildfire smoke that has clouded the air for weeks on end.

The top 10 places in the U.S. with the worst air quality today are all in Washington or Oregon as fires rage in the states.

Wildfires are a major source of air pollution. They are also predicted to worsen as climate change progresses.

LOS ANGELES — Conservationists have long warned that Southern California mountain lions could vanish within decades due to inbreeding and loss of habitat. Now, biologists have identified another threat that could hasten their demise — extreme wildfires.