All the headlines from our Wildfire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 15 2018 // Potentially powerful winds combined with dry weather are raising the threat of wildfires in California.State firefighters say they are preparing for potential extreme fire weather early in the week. The National Weather...
Oct 12 2018 // The Nevada Board of Examiners has recommended approval of an additional $3.8 million to cover the cost of fighting wildfires this past summer.The Nevada Appeal reports state forester Kacey KC told the board Tuesday more...
Oct 12 2018 // New data shows the cost of fighting wildfires in Oregon reached an all-time high $514.6 million in 2018.According to data from Northwest Interagency Coordination Center, Oregon’s costs skyrocketed past last...
Oct 12 2018 // Washington’s Public Lands Commissioner wants lawmakers to increase the amount of money that the state spends to fight wildfires and prevent future blazes.Hilary Franz, who oversees the Department of Natural...
Oct 11 2018 // One year after a devastating series of wildfires ripped through Northern California wine country, destroying thousands of homes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ first experience cleaning up after a wildfire has...
Oct 9 2018 // PG&E Corp.-owned equipment caused the Cascade fire in Northern California last year, state investigators have determined.Sagging power lines were the ignition source of the blaze, the California Department of Forestry...
Oct 8 2018 // California is poised to set an annual record it never wanted to break: the amount of earth scorched by wildfires.Blazes have already ripped through enough acres to blacken the entire state of Delaware, and what’s...
Oct 4 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones wants insurers to assist wildfire survivors by voluntarily easing detailed personal property home inventory requirements and to follow the lead of other insurers providing at...
Oct 1 2018 // Costs to fight wildfires in Utah are increasing by about $1 million a day right now and authorities expect the season to last throughout October.State Forester Brian Cottam says on average, there are roughly 1,100 fire...
Sep 24 2018 // Costs to fight wildfires in Utah are increasing by about $1 million a day right now and authorities expect the season to last throughout October.State Forester Brian Cottam says on average, there are roughly 1,100 fire...
Sep 21 2018 // Five bills that their proponents say will protect wildfire survivors were signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday.The bills are aimed at addressing critical issues facing wildfire survivors including...
Sep 21 2018 // Homeowners who lose their houses to wildfire will be able to use their insurance to rebuild somewhere else under an urgency bill signed by California Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday.Assembly Bill 1800, authored by by...
Sep 20 2018 // Natural hazards are good at grabbing headlines, but they aren’t as good as dissuading people from buying homes in high-risk areas, a new report shows.Median home prices in areas that are in the top 80 percentile for...
Sep 19 2018 // Officials announced on Wednesday that the Mendocino Complex Fire, the largest wildfire in California’s history, is now 100 percent contained.The blaze burned a combined 459,123 acres, destroyed 280 structures...
Sep 17 2018 // California lawmakers didn’t go as far as Governor Jerry Brown wanted to address potential liabilities for utilities from wildfires, and the governor said that “it’s hard to say” if they ever...
Sep 7 2018 // An explosive wildfire closed down dozens of miles of a major California freeway only weeks after a nearby blaze that left neighborhoods in ruins and killed eight people.The Delta Fire erupted Wednesday afternoon and within...
Sep 6 2018 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones on Thursday announced that insured residential and commercial losses from the Carr and Mendocino Complex fires topped $845 million and are now counted among the most destructive...
Sep 6 2018 // The federal government’s chief watchdog slammed the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s response to the hurricane that killed thousands of people in Puerto Rico last year, saying it was unprepared and failed...
Sep 4 2018 // California lawmakers passed legislation to help utility giant PG&E Corp. pay for billions of dollars in potential liabilities from wildfires that ravaged Northern California wine country last year.The state Assembly...
Aug 29 2018 // The California Legislature has passed Senate Bill 824, a bill aimed at provided information to the California Department of Insurance related to fire risk information on the residential property policies issued by...