This interactive map will display real-time wildfire location detail, perimeters and thermal hot spots across the U.S.
wildfires
California utility says its equipment may be linked to fire
Pacific Gas & Electric says its equipment may have been involved in the start of the big Dixie Fire burning in the Sierra Nevada
Wildfires encroach on Indigenous lands in parched Northwest
Even when the flames don’t enter densely populated areas, the impact of the increasingly intense fires around the U.S. West is felt directly by Native American tribes, which have managed the land for millennia.
Fuel shortage could ground firefighting aircraft
Airport officials facing jet fuel shortages are concerned they’ll have to wave off planes and helicopters that drop fire retardants during what could be a ferocious wildfire season, potentially endangering surrounding communities
Trump administration rejects, then approves, emergency aid for California fires
Trump has often been belligerent toward California’s Democratic-dominated state government, blaming their oversight for record-setting fires.
Death toll rises in California blazes as high winds approach
California has been battered for weeks by rounds of extreme weather that state officials say have been fueled by climate change.
Winds push California fire into Mojave Desert
Homes are destroyed as the Bobcat Fire, which is only 15 percent contained, grew by almost 20,000 acres.
‘Nothing left in the bucket’: Wildfire resources run thin
Firefighters battling the West Coast wildfires say this year’s blazes are some of the worst they have ever seen
Interactive Tracker: Wildfires scorching parts of the United States
Where wildfire activity and thermal detected hot spots are found across the United States in a fully interactive map.
Smoke from wildfires in the West reaches East Coast and even Europe
Plumes from deadly and record-breaking fires are being caught in the atmospheric jet stream and carried across the United States.