Wildfire

As people are evacuated from wildfires this summer, rushing to protect their family and homes, others are heading to betting sites like Polymarket to put money down on the fires.

Thunderstorms with high winds could make it more difficult to contain a massive wildfire that has scorched parts of southern Colorado.

Wildfires burning in Utah and Colorado have sent smoke across the Western Slope, prompting air quality advisories. Public health officials say to treat smoky skies like bad weather.

U.S. Forest Service chief recognizes fallen firefighters, calls wildfire season historic.

Wildfires have spread rapidly due to extreme fire conditions, burning tens of thousands of acres and straining firefighting resources.

Emily Barker, Nick Hutcherson, and Sydney Watson were killed battling the Snyder Fire.

Parts of Mesa County are under pre-evacuation notices, and areas north of Ouray have already been evacuated. And in the southwest corner of Colorado, the Ferris Fire has forced evacuations. It’s burning across Dolores and Montezuma counties.

Both in the United States and around the world, fire seasons in 2025 were relatively light. Yet the loss of lives and property hit historic highs, raising questions about whether acres burned is the best metric to assess devastation caused by wildfires, according to a recent analysis.

Researchers looked at more than 750,000 wildfires in the West between 1992 and 2020. In the second half of that period, the number of reported wildfires were down by 31%, but acreage burned was up 40%.

At night, temperatures are often cooler and the air is wetter, which gives wildland firefighters a long window to make up significant ground when trying to suppress blazes. But that pattern is breaking down, a trend driven by human-caused climate change, according to a new study.