western wildfires

Smoke fills the air and vehicles clog the roads near Lake Tahoe as residents flee the approaching Caldor Fire.The huge, fast-moving wildfire prompted…

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. officials have released a plan for removing or changing vegetation over a huge swath of the U.S. West to stop devastating…

Major wildfires have burned through the Western U.S. in 2020, breaking records for their scale and damage. As firefighters tamp down their immediate…

BEAVERCREEK, Ore. (AP) — Leaders in the Democratic-led West Coast states and President Donald Trump have clashed over the role of climate change as…

In March, the Bureau of Land Management approved a plan to build up to 11,000 miles of fuel breaks across the Great Basin, including much of Nevada. Fuel…

Crews are battling wildfires across the west from California to Montana this week in triple digit heat.One of the fires temporarily shut down the main…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Air National Guard C-130s from Wyoming, Nevada and Colorado that are equipped to battle wildfires have been activated to fight…

OROVILLE, Calif. — Relief was arriving after a rough stretch of wildfires all around the U.S. West, with firefighters slowly surrounding once-fierce…

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval saw a cyclical 3-year pattern in summer wildfire damage since a whopping 1.9 million acres burned…

Fire forecasters say Hawaii, Alaska and the Southwest will face an increased threat of wildfires this summer.The National Interagency Fire Center released…