On Wednesday and Thursday, in only a 24-hour period, the Northstate was hit by 3,535 lightning strikes which then started 23 ...

Despite the recent rainfall, the forest remains under Stage 1 Fire Restrictions, which limits campfires to designated ...

A swath of Northern California is at risk for more lightning this week with red flag warnings to go in effect Wednesday.

The 2-acre Ojitos Fire was 100 percent contained by mid-afternoon Monday (July 28), and "crews will continue to work the fire ...

On June 12, a team with the High-Altitude National Guard Aviation Training Site in Gypsum got reports of two hikers who were ...

Firefighters U.S. Forest Service responded Wednesday to a newly detected wildfire in the Salmon-Challis National Forest near ...

There were more than 6,600 lightning strikes across the state and 873 of those were recorded in Central Oregon, an official ...

A climate change-induced surge in brief but intense thunderstorms poses a growing but underrecognized threat to trees in ...

Red flag warnings and fire weather watches for many parts of Oregon were set to continue July 30 and through July 31.

Crews are attacking two fires in the Bitterroot National Forest.The Dominic Point Fire is burning 28 acres, 8 miles east of ...

After a thunderstorm, holdover lightning fires can smolder for weeks. With a series of wet thunderstorms, it can take several days of dry and warm weather for these fires to become visible, the ...

A lightning strike is the likely cause of a fire that burned a home in Holly Springs just hours after lightning sparked a ...