All the headlines from our Wildfire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 26 2018 // California Governor Jerry Brown issued a plan this week to help the state’s embattled utilities facing liabilities from wildfires. For PG&E Corp., it’s not good enough.“It’s insufficient,”...
Jul 26 2018 // Extreme weather that’s gripping northern Europe and parts of Asia may persist through early August, prolonging a deadly heatwave that’s parched crops and sparked devastating forest fires.Temperatures have risen...
Jul 25 2018 // California utility giants PG&E Corp. and Edison International are one step closer to changing a state law that has exposed them to billions of dollars in wildfire liabilities.Late Tuesday, California Gov. Jerry Brown...
Jul 24 2018 // Triple digit temperatures, low humidity and extreme drought conditions across much of Texas have firefighters battling wildfires and residents doing their best to escape the heat.The state’s largest wildfire, the...
Jul 24 2018 // California firefighters worked in worsening heat Monday to contain a forest fire outside Yosemite National Park.The Ferguson Fire had scorched nearly 53 square miles of timber and brush in the Sierra Nevada west of...
Jul 24 2018 // Swedish authorities said the risk of fires spreading across the country will hit “extreme” levels this week as emergency services battle dozens of blazes that have already destroyed more than $100 million worth...
Jul 24 2018 // Greek firefighters say that at least 74 people were killed in wildfires in the country’s Attica region, which includes Athens, as a summer heatwave has increased the risk of blazes across Europe.The fires struck two...
Jul 23 2018 // As wildfires raging through Sweden exhaust local emergency services, Europe is sending hundreds of people to help contain multiple blazes across the country.France, Germany and Denmark have dispatched more than 100...
Jul 16 2018 // After Hurricane Harvey swept through Texas last August, it not only left behind nearly 50 inches of rain in some areas and an estimated $125 billion in damage, but questions for the insurance industry in terms of how to...
Jul 16 2018 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to require insurance companies to let homeowners know whether their policies are sufficient to rebuild or replace their homes after a disaster. Assembly Bill 1799, by...
Jul 13 2018 // As blame for California’s wildfires rises over Sacramento like smoke from last year’s blazes, the state is being forced to confront the possibility that it’ll happen again in 2018.California’s...
Jul 10 2018 // California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed legislation to requires insurance companies to let homeowners know whether their policies are sufficient to rebuild or replace their homes after a disaster.Assembly Bill 1799, by...
Jul 10 2018 // More than 100 people have been waiting for temporary housing for almost two weeks since being displaced by a wildfire that burned through their tiny community in the Florida Panhandle.In a Panama City News Herald report ,...
Jul 9 2018 // Firefighters toiled in stifling heat Saturday on the lines of destructive wildfires across the U.S. West, making progress against some blazes while struggling to tame others that have forced evacuations of hundreds of...
Jul 6 2018 // California lawmakers may change the standard for determining whether utilities are liable for wildfire damage following the worst wildfire season in state history.Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders said on July 2...
Jul 5 2018 // Large wildfires grew across the American West on July 4, keeping thousands of people out of their homes for the July 4 holiday and forcing some strict bans on fireworks to prevent new fires from igniting in the hot, dry...
Jul 3 2018 // More than 100 homes in the Colorado mountains were destroyed by a growing wildfire, while hundreds of others across the parched U.S. West remained under evacuations Tuesday.A fire near Fort Garland, roughly 200 miles...
Jul 3 2018 // A massive wildfire in rural Northern California has grown in size and has forced evacuations.The fast-moving fire that started over the weekend northwest of Sacramento grew dramatically to about 150 square miles by Monday...
Jul 3 2018 // Fire danger across much of the country has prompted cancellation of July 4 fireworks displays.In northern Arizona, Prescott’s fire chief says he’s canceling the town’s Fourth of July fireworks show as...
Jul 2 2018 // An audit has found that Kansas doesn’t have money to devote to wildfires and its fire-fighting efforts are inadequate.In Kansas, local government has first responsibility for fighting fires and often have to cover...