Wildfires

Some states have halted training and may be underprepared for the 2019 fire season.

• By Kelley Czajka

Firefighters and climate scientists have pushed back on Trump's claims about wildfire management, month after month.

• By Emily Moon

From climate change to industrial influence.

• By Emily Moon

Every level of government understood the dangers of a potential fire in the region but took few, if any, of the steps needed to prevent catastrophe.

• By Keith Schneider

The Central Valley company faced $64 million in claims from the thousands of people who lost their homes in the Camp fire.

• By Emily Moon

It's not just climate change that's making the disasters worse, it's the increased building within areas deemed particularly vulnerable to fire.

• By Karim Doumar

A growing body of research suggests that, thanks to various environmental symptoms of climate change, America's forests are increasingly at a disadvantage when it comes to recovering from devastating wildfires.

• By Jared Keller

New farm bill provisions would eliminate environmental protections for forest management, without addressing the wildfires' biggest driver: climate change.

• By Emily Moon

The latest assessment paints a bleak picture of the future.

• By Kate Wheeling

What research tells us about the impact of climate change, forest management, and more on California's fires.

• By Emily Moon

As fires clogged the air in Southern California, farmworkers continued to work, even as public-school students and others were told to stay home and indoors.

• By Jack Herrera

Both governments and people tend to adopt only short-term responses to wildfire dangers that don't necessarily reduce risk effectively—it's time for that to change.

• By Max Mortiz, Naomi Tague & Sarah Anderson

Record-high temperatures continue to exacerbate fire, drought, and other negative weather patterns around the world.

• By Emma Sarappo

The hot, dry winds turn drought-ridden areas of Southern California into a tinderbox in the fall.

• By Rebecca Worby

The Woolsey and Camp Fires mark a continuation of unprecedented burning in California.

• By Jack Herrera

The Trump administration announces new immigration rules, more wildfires erupt in California, and Google changes its sexual misconduct policies in response to walkouts.

• By Rebecca Worby

Studies show that removing trees actually make fires more intense, wreaking further havoc on both human and wildlife habitat.

• By Emily Moon

A ruined view following a wildfire affects property values, but only because it's a painful reminder of risk, economists find.

• By Sophie Yeo

Commodity-driven deforestation is most responsible, with farming and forestry also playing a major role in the global tree cover loss.

• By Rachel Fritts

Local leaders from around the world convene at this week's Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco.

• By Lucia Graves

A new report looks at how the government responded to a quick succession of hurricanes and wildfires last year.

• By Francie Diep

The Trump administration has posited that more active management of forests could help prevent future fires, but the science doesn't back that up.

• By Derek E. Lee

After fleeing the Carr Fire, survivors ask: What did they leave behind?

• By Alissa Greenberg

A changing climate, increasingly destructive fires, and disappearing insurance policies have left homeowners wondering how much risk is too much.

• By Jackie Botts