Metrics to indicate wildfire likelihood and severity are common worldwide; however, a growing body of research suggests that more nuanced approaches may be necessary. The Canadian Forest Fire Weather ...

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has called for an independent investigation into the federal response management of a wildfire that caused numerous residents and workers to evacuate and destroyed a ...

As California’s Madre fire continues to grow, becoming the largest in that state in a year already synonymous with wildfire, Wildfire Today guest writer Jackson Ruby looks at Federal Emergency ...

Thousands of residents in northern Japan were forced to flee their homes as a record-setting wildfire burned near their properties. Crews from the nation’s Fire and Disaster Management Agency (FDMA) ...

A grueling fight that forced wildland firefighters in the United States to become armchair legislative experts just entered its fourth year, with a light at the end of the tunnel being closer than ...

Fire photographer Ryan Grothe attended a San Diego County Sheriff’s Department press conference last week as officials showed off their new firefighting helicopter. Sheriff Kelly Martinez introduced ...

Firewatch Cobra, N109Z. Still image from VICE video. September, 2021. After 19 years, the U.S. Forest Service has shut down the Firewatch Cobra helicopter program. The two Cobras, N109z and N107Z, ...

Aerial image showing a portion of Magalia just NW of Paradise, illustrating a gradient of fire damage to overstory vegetation with distance from destroyed homes. At least in some areas, burning homes ...

Military aircraft have long been used to apply insecticides and herbicides. An entomologist from Cleveland, C. R. Neillie, believing that airplanes could be used to dust a stand of trees, worked with ...

Yesterday President Trump flew in to Sacramento McClellan Airport to receive a briefing on the wildfires ravaging the state. Before he met with the Governor and fire officials he stepped before ...

Map, Freeway Complex, from OCFA AAR. The Orange County Fire Authority has released a 128-page report (large 8Mb file) about the devasting Freeway Fire that started November 15, 2008 in southern ...

On February 26 Wildfire Today posted some of the history of the “18 Watch Out Situations”. As we explained then, they began with the “13 Situations that Shout Watch Out” in the 1960s, and evolved in ...