Last year, Utah logged 1,244 reports of wildfires, the highest number recorded since 2020. Nationally, the total acres burned rose from 2.7 million acres in 2023 to nearly nine million in 2024, a ...

About 500 miles west, in Douglas County, Nev., roughly 25 miles east of Lake Tahoe, the Conner fire exploded to almost 14,000 acres, from 2,000 acres on Friday.

A wildfire has closed the Okanagan Connector (Highway 97C) in B.C.'s Okanagan region between West Kelowna and the junction of Highway 5A, with the blaze also prompting the tactical evacuation of 400 ...

The lightning-sparked South Rim fire burning in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park has burned more than 3,500 acres, fire officials said on Sunday, July 13, 2025. .

As climate-driven weather extremes fuel fires across the U.S. West, the tendency of residents to spend more time indoors may be accelerating the spread of infectious diseases, a new study has found… ...

Climate change has inexorably stacked the deck in favor of bigger and more intense fires across the American West over the past few decades, science has incontrovertibly shown. Increasing heat ...

Fires have so far scorched 14 million acres in Canada, an area about the size of West Virginia, on track to be the second worst Canadian fire season on record, according to government data.

For example, with one of the current wildfires in North Carolina, “a lot of the damage and the blowdown, the downed trees from Hurricane Helene are contributing to the difficulties that our ...

The Sandhurst Fire burns near radio towers above Ensign Peak and north of Salt Lake City on July 20, 2024. Lawmakers, led by Sen. John Curtis, R-Utah, are looking at ways to reduce their number ...