Experts with various wildfire-related agencies in Alaska gathered at Hilltop Ski Area Saturday for an inter-agency wildfire ...

Alaska’s spring season varies greatly across the state: from deep snow and below-zero temperatures in Fairbanks and Delta Junction, to clear skies and snowy forecasts in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and ...

But seasonal wildland fire outlooks usually don't factor in lightning because local lightning forecasts are difficult and time-consuming to put together. A group of researchers at the University of ...

Firefighters and equipment from the lower 48 states and Canada are arriving to help battle wildfires burning in Alaska. Weary firefighters welcomed the help as they struggled to keep up with two major ...

Almost 50 large wildfires are burning in a dozen US states from Texas to Alaska. The McKinley Fire, which has now spread to more than 4,300 acres in Alaska, has destroyed at least 80 structures so far ...

Oregon fire starts: The Doolittle Flat Fire in Wheeler County has burned 25 acres near Highway 26, with no containment updates yet. Arizona blaze grows: The Horseshoe Fire in Tonto National Forest has ...

Ashes swallowed my hiking boots as I climbed a forested ridge north of Fairbanks. Blackened branches clawed at the sky — the ridge burned last year in the Grapefruit Complex fire — and the air still ...

Crews battle wildfires raging across California, Alaska and Arizona JUNEAU, Alaska/PHOENIX - Wildfires raging in three West Coast states have forced more than 1,000 people to be evacuated from their ...

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