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 ...

Hundreds of lightning strikes sparked across the Bay Area as a low pressure system passed through the region, bringing a ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Those two fires were among 22 in the TCU September Lightning Complex, in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. On Wednesday, six of them were 150 acres or larger. Cal Fire put the complex’s combined area ...

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

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 ...

One person was found dead in the wreckage of a small airplane that crashed Friday afternoon northeast of Mount Hamilton, Cal Fire said.