Eleven years ago, almost 100,000 acres of forest burned in the American River watershed, according to the Placer County Water ...

A bout of dry weather in the Northeast has fueled wildfire conditions in New Jersey, with several fires burning in the state.

A new map of wildfire risk in New Jersey shows the state at a high to extreme risk of fires as blazes continue.

Since the weekend, several major fires have been raging across Canada’s central and western provinces. The smoke from those fires is now drifting south across the U.S. border and is significantly ...

Stephen Swanson is a web producer at CBS News Minnesota. Stephen was a floor director for a decade before moving to the WCCO-TV newsroom in 2011, where he focuses on general assignment reporting.

Currently, 11 counties in the Brazos Valley are under a burn ban, meaning outdoor burning is absolutely prohibited.

SO THE RAIN HAS STOPPED FOR A LITTLE BIT, BUT IT’S BEEN A PRETTY WET EVENING HERE AT MICHAUX STATE FOREST. BUT IT HASN’T STOPPED CREWS FROM WORKING AROUND THE CLOCK TO STOP TWO FIRES THAT HAS BURNED ...

A before-and-after study of wildfires in the Plumas National Forest compared private timber land with public lands. The results: The orderly arrangement of trees planted for logging leads to more ...

Avocado Lake Park reopened to the public Thursday morning and Wishon Village reported that its campground was completely safe, the latest signs that the biggest dangers from the wildfire burning in ...

ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KRQE) — The Lincoln National Forest is planning to carry out some prescribed burns over the next couple of days. As long as weather permits, these burns would happen on July 4, 5, ...