Firefighters from the USDA Forest Service, the North Carolina Forest Service and nearby counties continue to make progress to contain the Rattlesnake Branch Fire.

This story will be updated throughout the day as new information about Western North Carolina wildfires becomes available.

As of the latest March 24 evening update, maps indicated that one fire in Polk County had hopped the Green River.

The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations focused on fire safety. While the new regulations may eventually lower insurance premiums for some homeowners ...

More than 800,000 acres of land across these SoCal counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard severity zone ...

The N.C. Forest Service has an interactive map showing wildfires across the state, with the size of the area involved and how ...

Diablo Winds are similar to Santa Ana winds, they just occur a little farther to the north. They both can aid in creating ...

SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (KABC) -- Cal Fire's fire hazard severity maps are getting a makeover, and homeowners may want to pay attention. This critical city planning resource - which is getting a major ...

Residents can now check with new Cal Fire fire hazard severity zone maps released Monday to find out. This latest batch of maps detail the severity of fire hazard by area. Hazards are rated ...

released its new fire hazard maps on Monday, including for Sacramento, detailing which areas have the highest severity for fires. The maps, created by the State Fire Marshal, show that the very ...

The police in Seattle are investigating a fire that damaged four Tesla Cybertrucks parked in an electric vehicle storage lot late Sunday night, the authorities said. It wasn’t immediately clear ...

Alexandra Bialousow, 40, of Myrtle Beach, was arrested Thursday on charges of negligently allowing fire to spread beyond her land or property and starting a fire in woodlands, grasslands or other ...