KITTERY, Maine — It’s wildfire season in Maine and fire safety officials have some reminders on how to prevent them. Forest fires are most common in Maine from late March to late November. April is ...

Three-fourths of a vast wildfire in New Jersey's Pine Barrens has been contained, state officials said Monday. The state Forest Fire Service said the blaze in southern New Jersey's Ocean County had ...

Smoke may be visible in Augusta, Amherst, Rockbridge and Nelson counties today as fire specialists conduct a prescribed burn ...

Though fire risk is generally lower in the eastern U.S. than out west, Georgia's national forest lands are not immune to ...

On April 3, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, citing an emergency caused by "uncharacteristically severe wildfires, insect ...

A national strategy to increase timber production and use emergency authorities to protect forests from fire, insects and ...

With near-drought conditions, fire officials reduced prescribed burns this spring even as they worried about ‘quite a fire ...

POLITICO first reported that Trump is weighing an executive order to create a new agency for wildfire response and overhaul fire funding, and is separately considering a broader reorganization of the ...

The maps allow us to see what the most forested places in the U.S. have in common. Zooming in on a few different examples, ...