Wildfires

Residents in the Big Sur area of California were told to evacuate from their homes due to a wildfire that began late Friday, officials said.

The Biden administration says it will significantly expand efforts to stave off catastrophic wildfires that have been torching areas of the U.S. West by more aggressively thinning forests around “hot spots” where nature and neighborhoods collide

With wildfires still burning in suburbs outside of Boulder, Colorado, experts are calling for more awareness to the growing threat. Many communities and homes are not built to be fire-resilient, despite the cost to fireproof being low. “We need to rethink how we’re building,” says Jennifer Balch of EarthLab at University of Colorado Boulder.

Climate change is the reason the ground in Boulder County, Colorado, was primed for a wind-whipped fire to take off, and other areas may experience similar extensions of their wildfire seasons, climate experts say....
“Climate change is clearly making the pre-conditions for wildfires worse across most fire-prone regions of the world,” said said Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University...

At least 500 homes were likely destroyed and there were no known deaths in a wind-fueled wildfire outside Denver, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle said Friday.

Hundreds of homes burned as heavy winds fanned the flames on Thursday.

A father and son were arrested Wednesday on suspicion of starting a massive California wildfire that destroyed many homes and forced tens of thousands of people to flee Lake Tahoe communities earlier this year, authorities said.

Sequoia National Park says lightning-sparked wildfires in the past two years have killed a minimum of nearly 10,000 giant sequoia trees in California

The data comes just weeks after Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed an agreement at the COP26 climate summit pledging to end deforestation by 2030.

A former college professor was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday for allegedly starting four wildfires in Northern California earlier this year that threatened to trap firefighters as they battled a massive fire nearby, federal prosecutors said.

The chief of California’s forestry and wildland firefighting agency will retire next month after shepherding the state through three historic wildfire seasons.

The clue to why may be the way we fight fires, both big and small. Carolyn Johnson reports for the NBC4 News on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021.

A geography professor at UC Riverside says aggressive wildfire-fighting tactics don’t allow wildfire fuels to burn like they once did, keeping the doors open for massive fires in the future

California is encouraging more use of fire to fight fire, such as when deliberately set burns were recently used to protect giant sequoias from a raging wildfire.

A woman accused of starting a wildfire in Northern California that destroyed more than 100 homes last month will be examined by psychiatrists to determine her mental stability before court proceedings continue.

Wildfires have destroyed nearly 50,000 homes in California alone in the last five years, and scientists say global warming is only making things worse.

The Treasury Department is looking at the impact of climate change on American households’ finances, as well as how to address those risks.

For the past year residents in the Bobcat Fire area have been protected from having their fire insurance dropped, but that protection ran out over the weekend.

For the past year residents in the Bobcat fire area have been protected from having their fire insurance dropped, but that protection ran out over the weekend. Kim Baldonado reports for the NBC4 News on Monday, Sept. 27, 2021.

There’s a reddish/orange tint outside from fires burning in Nothern California. Gordon Tokumatsu reports for the NBC4 News on Friday, Sept. 24, 2021.