U.S. land managers have long known that they have a problem on their hands with overgrown forests and persistent drought.

A new prescribed burn, named Red Hill Vmp, was initiated 3 p.m. Jan. 7 in Riverside County, California. The prescribed fire ...

A new prescribed burn, called Sac Valley Conservancy, was initiated 8:55 p.m. Jan. 6 in Sacramento County, California. The ...

A team of Stanford scientists found that pre-burning certain areas reduced the severity of future wildfires by as much as 16% ...

The Dragon Bravo Fire is now the eighth-largest wildfire affecting a national park since 2021, growing rapidly and completely ...

National wildfire policy has changed significantly over the past century. After the “Big Burn” of Idaho and Montana in 1910, federal fire officials treated all fires as an enemy and instituted a “10 a ...

As of mid-September, the Forest Service had completed or contracted out fewer than 37,000 acres of prescribed fire projects in California since Oct. 1, 2020.

The U.S. Forest Service is resuming its prescribed burning program with new rules that it says will minimize the risk of fires escaping control and damaging communities. The announcement comes ...

Plans are made and the park’s fire crew is ready, but it may be a while before this season’s prescribed fires begin in Indiana Dunes National Park. Micah Bell, the national park’s… ...

Every year, land managers intentionally set millions of acres on fire across the United States. Last month, one of those prescribed fires in Eastern Oregon’s Grant County had the rare ...

New Mexico lawmakers reacted on social media after the U.S. Forest Service found in a probe that its own prescribed burn started a wildfire last April that forced evacuation orders.

U.S. Forest Service officials decried the arrest of an employee who was leading prescribed burns in ... But the controlled fire that the crew set on the afternoon of Oct. 19 jumped a containment ...