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 ...

G RAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Containment continues to grow for the wildfires burning in the west. Here is the latest ...

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. .

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.

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 ...

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… ...

Environment PacifiCorp contributes to bills throughout West to limit liability in wildfires Updated: Mar. 31, 2025, 5:03 p.m. | Published: Mar. 31, 2025, 10:42 a.m.

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 ...