Hundreds of wildfires are burning across the Southern U.S., fueled by strong winds, low humidity, and dry vegetation. The worst fires are in the Carolinas, where thousands of acres have burned and ...

Wildfires by the numbers: How many acres burned and the estimated cost so far Vasili Varlamos Fri, July 18th 2025 at 4:14 PM Updated Fri, July 18th 2025 at 6:41 PM 5 ...

Wildfires in the U.S. have gotten larger, more frequent and more widespread since 2000, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study published in Science Advances. Researchers, who said ...

As of Tuesday, fires had consumed 5.6 million acres nationwide, about twice the acreage burned last year to date and three times the fire footprint to date in 2020, according to the National ...

BYU professor Rob Sowby teaches and studies environmental engineering, urban water infrastructure and sustainability. He has particular expertise in the planning, design, construction and operation of ...

Los Angeles and other areas of California are at high risk of wildfires, but they're not alone. So are parts of Texas, Florida and more, maps show.

More than 4,400 wildfires have been reported this year in California, up from 3,800 at this time last year. More than 221,100 acres have burned this year, well beyond the 83,200 acres through July ...

Six wildfires sparked in four days, burning nearly a quarter-million acres in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. The Thomas Fire —at the time the state’s largest wildfire—burned over ...

Fire officials reported additional progress toward containing western Colorado’s five wildfires through the morning of July 22, with three of the fires more than 50% contained. The five blazes ...

South Carolina wildfires force residents to flee homes as blazes erupt along Eastern Seaboard By Steven Yablonski, Andrew Wulfeck, FOX Weather Published March 4, 2025, 12:10 p.m. ET ...

A 2023 study of California wildfires conducted by U.S. Forest Service researchers found that “new fire regimes are increasingly affecting more urban census tracts statewide, meaning greater ...

Scientists are finding that Western wildfires can have far-reaching impacts. If they're burning while Central U.S. thunderstorms are forming, the rain and hail can be dramatically more destructive.