SAN FRANCISCO (CNN) -- Dozens of wildfires currently blazing across the West have been exhibiting extreme fire behavior: demonstrating alarming rotational patterns and wafting smoke across the country ...

The intent of this article is to "tune-up" your understanding of wildland fire behavior. Understanding fire behavior allows for the correct selection of strategy and tactics. Similar to structural ...

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- Some new out-of-state help has arrived to help lead the fight against two fires burning in the Ochoco National Forest. The Crazy Creek fire north of Paulina has grown to more than ...

The Florida Forest Service (FFS) said in a release they responded Thursday with multiple resources along with Putnam County Fire Rescue to a 30-acre wildfire. FFS said the East Bannerville Fire ...

Temperatures are rising and forest fires, already larger and more frequent than the historical norm, are projected to increase dramatically with anthropogenic warming. The way humans have used land in ...

While all of us have a commonsense understanding of heat and temperature, these concepts are frequently misunderstood. As discussed in previous articles, fire behavior indicators can be grouped into ...