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

Lightning strikes kill 320 million trees yearly worldwide. This causes significant carbon emissions, almost matching ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The unusual clustering and physical condition of the carcasses suggest a high probability of death due to a lightning strike: Kaziranga National Park director ...

Officials from Bitterroot National Forest (BNF) reported more than six fires igniting across the southern end of the forest, ...