It's wildfire season in the West, and oppressive heat and drought in the region are providing fuel to several blazes. In the last two years, Colorado has logged its three largest wildfires in ...

Limited funding has made it hard for states to keep their wildfire risk maps up to date, even as global warming increases the danger. For years, Colorado’s wildfire risk map was so inaccurate ...

Using data from the National Weather Service, United States Geological Survey and other federal agencies, Esri GPS software has created an updated map of current wildfires across Colorado: ...

The below map illustrates just how ... at unprecedented spatial scales, allowing current wildfires to burn across the entire U.S. West Coast." Colorado's state climatologist Russ Schumacher ...

Here are five charts (and one map) to put wildfires ... department at Colorado State University published a study on how wildfire risk has changed under our current climate. What they found ...

Editor’s note: Tap here to see the Colorado ... fire crews fight to contain them. Click here to skip to a specific fire: Quarry fire | Alexander Mountain fire | Bucktail fire | Wildfire map ...

As of May, Northwest Colorado will see “normal significant fire potential” through August based on outlooks from the National Interagency Fire Center. The potential is driven by current and forecasted ...

One house was destroyed and 700 others have been evacuated due to the Highland Lakes wildfire in Divide, Colorado, according to officials. Strong gusts of wind could make the fire grow.

The Platte Basin in Colorado now experiences 25 more ... published a study on how wildfire risk has changed under our current climate. “We were motivated to do something local because we lived ...

This trend is strongly influenced by major fires in 2017, 2018 and 2020, including destructive fires in Paradise and Santa Rosa, California, and in Colorado ... what got the West into its current ...

A new technique developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research uses artificial intelligence to efficiently update the vegetation maps used by wildfire computer models to more accurately ...