Prescribed fires are a critical tool to preventing catastrophic wildfires. Such controlled burning helps reduce the intensity ...

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. The sun is still ... leap out of a plane to fight a backcountry forest fire. A Fire Boss plane dumps water to aid a ...

The Hughes fire, burning near Castaic Lake north of Santa Clarita, exploded to more than 10,000 acres of mostly brush in just ...

City workers and celebrities, teachers and tycoons talk about what they lost in the Los Angeles fires — and how they’ll ...

Throughout Florida’s history, its ecology has been entangled with fire. “We set good fires, or else we get bad ones,” says ...

Legislation to reduce the impact of increasingly devastating forest fires on US federal land passed the House of ...

Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignition ...

In Eaton Canyon, a beloved hiking area, more than two dozen trails appear to have burned, including those leading to Millard ...

For years, renowned fire experts Jack Cohen and Stephen Pyne have tried to shift the conversation on fire prevention ...

This story appears in the July 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. When an editor called ... nights to capture the magical scene in the forest. Tripod in hand, I hiked with my colleagues ...

In an effort to curb wildfires, California aims to treat a million acres of land in the state each year. Cal Fire plays a ...