The Latest Breaking News from US Forest Service

Wildfires in the Carolinas have been fueled by dry and warm weather and leftover hurricane debris

The U.S. has historically imported timber from China and Canada

As wind-driven wildfires spread through the Los Angeles area in January 2025, fire-spotting technology and computer models were helping firefighters understand the rapidly changing environment they were facing.

The fires burning in the Los Angeles area are a powerful example of why humans have learned to fear wildfire. Fires can level entire neighborhoods in an instant. They can destroy communities, torch pristine forests and choke even faraway cities with toxic smoke.

Angeles National Forest closed by US Forest Service to prevent wildfires, violators face fines.

Ongoing investigation into the cause of the Eaton fire led by authorities in collaboration with US Forest Service arson investigators.

A career archaeologist with the U.S. Forest Service says managers have been engaging in irresponsible and illegal behavior that has resulted in damage to Native American sites across the forested slopes of North Carolina

After requesting a budget commensurate with inflation and better forest and public lands management, the federal government said "Take a hike" to the US Forest Service. Too bad no one will be able to really do that next year.

Firefighters credit a perfect storm of more fires, low wages and dangerously high turnover rates for the trend.