Fewer wildfires burn in North American forests today than in previous centuries, increasing the risk of more severe wildfires ...

Modern forests burn less, but fuel buildup increases wildfire risk, making fires more intense and dangerous for forests and ...

Burn marks left on trees show that fires occurred frequently in North America from 1750 to 1880, but they tended to be less ...

Climate scientists present a realistic supercomputer simulation that resolves the complex interactions between fire, vegetation, smoke and the atmosphere. The authors find that increasing greenhouse ...

Two large fires and two smaller ones continue to burn. The biggest, the Palisades Fire, is just 17 per cent contained and has destroyed 23,713 acres of land. The Eaton Fire is 35 per cent ...

Investigators are trying to determine what caused several wind-driven wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes across the Los Angeles area in January 2025. Given the fires’ locations, and lack ...

Castaic, California | More than 50,000 people were under evacuation orders or warnings on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) as a huge and fast-moving wildfire swept through rugged mountains north of Los ...