Wildland fires have been a part of the Rocky Mountain ecosystems for millions of years, resulting from lightning strikes, volcanic eruptions, and spontaneous combustion. The plants and animals evolved ...

Lookout photojournalist Kevin Painchaud describes what he saw in the days and weeks after the CZU Lightning Complex fire ignited in 2020 and the resilience of Santa Cruz Mountains communities in the ...

The Lee and Elk fires grew rapidly and forced evacuations in and around the town of Meeker after they were started by ...

A Mendocino National Forest campground destroyed in a major wildfire has reopened Friday, officials said. Hammerhorn ...

The 2020 Labor Day Fires forever changed the landscape of several Oregon communities and the beloved wilderness surrounding ...

In August 2020, a dry lightning storm kicked off an unprecedented siege of wildfires. These firestorms lasted for months, destroyed 9,000 structures and killed 31 people. Millions of residents ...

So far this year, nearly two dozen large wildfires have charred roughly 218,000 acres in Colorado, mostly on the Western ...

WALDMAN LOOKS BACK ON THE AUGUST COMPLEX. AUGUST 2020. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA IS IN THE MIDDLE OF A HEAT WAVE ON THE 17TH. A STARTLINGLY POWER LIGHTNING STORM STRIKES NORTHERN CALIFORNIA. DOZENS OF ...

A wave of lightning-sparked wildfires burned across the Sierra Nevada foothills of Central California on Wednesday, torching dry hillsides and threatening historic Gold Rush-era towns as fire crews ...

As dozens of wildfires burn across California after a remarkable outbreak of dry lightning, a new study warns that a warming planet could bring more lightning-sparked wildfires to the West in the ...

A wave of lightning-sparked wildfires burned across the Sierra Nevada foothills of Central California on Wednesday, torching dry hillsides and threatening historic Gold Rush-era towns as fire crews ...