Ravalli County fire officials told county commissioners an “above average fire season" likely looms at their first fire ...

Estimates for the death toll from the forest fire range from 1,500 to 2,500. In comparison, fewer than 300 people died in the Chicago fire.

Smokey Bear, the beloved symbol of the U.S. Forest Service, turns 80 years old on August 9, 2024. He's been warning about forest fires and wildfires in the great outdoors for eight decades.

At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest.

Firefighters swiftly responded to a small wildfire early Saturday morning, July 5, along Highway 39 above Crystal Lake in San ...

A Myrtle Beach area resident faces charges as police say she started a blaze in her fire pit that led to the more than 2,000-acre Carolina Forest wildfire.

The Keller Peak Fire Lookout near Running Springs in the San Bernardino National Forest is shown here in a 2021 file photo. With an elevation at 7,882 feet, the Keller Peak was the oldest lookout ...

Just after 7 p.m. May 2, an evacuation order was issued for parts of northeast Marion County as the 150-acre fire spread in the Ocala National Forest. Authorities temporarily closed CR 314 between ...