Wildfires this summer are expected to be most severe in southwestern U.S. states, Florida, Georgia and in some parts of California and Nevada, forecasters said Monday. The summer 2017 fire outlook issued by the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise …
For 13 years, Charlie Womer climbed to the top of Mehoopany fire lookout tower in Wyoming County to watch over miles of countryside. The tower went up in 1923. Womer was born four years later. Fire season is changing for …
The U.S. economy has sustained $2 billion in wildfire losses – the highest in eight years, according to the latest edition of Impact Forecasting’s Global Catastrophe Recap monthly report. The report, which evaluates the impact of the natural disaster events …
The damage from California’s fast-spreading wildfires is usually expressed in acres destroyed, homes razed or people killed. But for the firefighters, a mental and physical toll is mounting just as fast. Currently in the fourth year of a devastating drought, …
When it comes to forest fires, the weather matters. Over a 35-year period, the length of forest fire seasons worldwide increased by 18.7 percent due to more rain-free days and hotter temperatures, according to South Dakota State University professor Mark …
Hot, dry California was beginning to feel the full brunt of fire season as blazes burned throughout the state, threatening hundreds of homes, although most areas dodged serious destruction. As firefighters knocked down dozens of small brush fires from north …
Officials say weather conditions including a long winter and a wet spring and summer combined to put a damper on wildfires across Michigan in 2014. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources officials say that 167 wildfires statewide blackened a total …
The Kentucky Division of Forestry says it will use bloodhounds to help investigate arson cases as the fall wildfire season begins. A statement from the agency says it is the first time trained dogs are being used to help with …
The U.S. is heading into a tough wildfire season made even more challenging because budget cuts mean fewer firefighters to battle blazes, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said Monday. Another dry year is creating the potential for another extreme summer of …
New Mexico is facing a potentially devastating wildfire season this year after experiencing record-setting fires over the past two years. This season is shaping up to be one of the worst as a decade of drought drains moisture from forest …