Author: Ondrej Perlinger

Lightning ignited some fresh small fires Monday in the drought-battered Southwest, but its storms brought welcome rain for the monster blaze, which has rampaged in New Mexico for one month and is now the largest in the...

The blaze has become the largest one in the state’s history. A massive wildfire now burning east of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is the biggest in the state’s history as thousands of firefighters continue fighting the...

Forecasters are saying that the West may have a particularly bad fire season, as several more damaging fires have been set way ahead of the hottest and driest months. An intense fire has destroyed 20 homes in an affluent...

Modeling finds millions of homes are vulnerable * Regions far east of today’s large wildfires not immune A handful of counties in Georgia, for example, had among the largest projected increases in the proportion of homes...