Florida’s Dry While Rest of U.S. is Wet May 23, 2017 By Brian K. Sullivan Spring dumped so much rain on the U.S. that most of the country is drought-free for the first time in...
Florida Wildfires Burn Over 126,000 Acres Already This Year April 18, 2017 At least 126,000 acres have burned in wildfires across Florida since January, surpassing the five-year average of acreage burned in...
Florida Conditions May Mean More Wildfires March 28, 2017 The smell of smoke is in downtown Orlando, Florida. On Sunday, a brush fire caused a part of State Road...
Wildfires in 4 States Force Thousands From Homes, Kill 6 March 9, 2017 By ROXANA HEGEMAN and JIM SUHR Crews grappling with vexing wildfires that have charred hundreds of square miles of land in four states and killed six...
Study Finds Most Wildfires Caused by People March 1, 2017 By SETH BORENSTEIN People have triggered five out of six wildfires in the U.S. over the last two decades, tripling the length of...
Insurers, People Rarely Pay When Washington Bills for Negligence-Caused Wildfires September 12, 2016 Washington regularly bills people who are deemed to have negligently started wildfires, but the state isn’t always successful at collecting....
Woman High on Drugs, Driving on Rim Sparked California Wildfires August 31, 2016 A car driven by a woman high on drugs sparked several wildfires that have burned at least 450 acres in...
Warming-Fueled Wildfires on the Rise May 12, 2016 By SETH BORENSTEIN Alberta’s unusually early and large fire is just the latest of many gargantuan fires on an Earth that’s grown hotter...
Wildfires Create Dangerous Gaps in California’s Pacific Crest Hiking Trail April 29, 2016 Vast wildfires have created lengthy gaps in Southern California sections of the famed Pacific Crest Trail, which hikers must bypass...
Drought Affects Recovery of Rocky Mountain Forests After Fire March 24, 2016 By Kelly April Tyrrell A changing climate is altering the ability of Rocky Mountain forests to recover from wildfire, according to a new study...