Seven States in West Added to IBHS Expands Wildfire Prepared Program April 15, 2026 Seven new states in the Western U.S. are now part of a new wildfire preparedness designation program designed to help...
Wildfires Race Across US as Drought Spans Half the Nation April 10, 2026 By Lauren Rosenthal An unusually hot, snowless winter has fueled a fast start to the spring fire season across large swaths of the...
Record Low Colorado Mountain Snow Doesn’t Bode Well for Drought-Stricken West April 7, 2026 By Mead Gruver and Brittany Peterson Hydrologist Maureen Gutsch trudged through the mud and slush to confirm a grim picture: Colorado just had its worst snowpack...
Study Finds Warming World Increases Days When Weather Is Prone to Fires February 23, 2026 By Seth Borenstein The number of days when the weather gets hot, dry and windy — ideal to spark extreme wildfires — has...
Severe Drought Prompts Burn Bans, Water Usage Restrictions in South Florida February 17, 2026 South Florida water managers are sounding the alarm as the worst drought in a quarter-century has left parts of the...
Study Ties Particle Pollution From Wildfire Smoke to 24,100 US Deaths Per Year February 6, 2026 By Dorany Pineda Chronic exposure to pollution from wildfires has been linked to tens of thousands of deaths annually in the United States,...
Massive Wildfire Liabilities Push Utilities to Use AI to Stop Blazes November 25, 2025 By Lauren Rosenthal and Joe Wertz On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europeare contracting with...
More Americans Breathe Unhealthy Air Due to Wildfires, Extreme Heat April 25, 2025 By Emma Court Around 156 million Americans, nearly half of the US population, now live in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution,...
Forecast Calls for Wildfires to Burn More Land Across US This Year April 25, 2025 A Long-range forecast predicts wildfires will burn more land across the U.S. this year, with a potentially active spring in...
As Wildfire Season Arrives, Budget Woes and Federal Uncertainty Put States at Risk March 31, 2025 By Martha Bellisle Budget woes, combined with cuts to the federal wildfire-fighting workforce and President Donald Trump’s tariff and sovereignty threats against Canada,...