Wildfires

Fire weather days are different than fire season. They are increasing due to climate change.

Low humidity, high heat and is pointing to a high-risk fire season. Idaho Power is helping residents prepare for potential outages and revving up efforts to prevent their systems from causing wildfires.

Record low snow pack is shaping a high-risk summer for wildfires. A new program is using a unique strategy for getting rid of excess fuel in the Treasure Valley.

“Suppression is always going to be there,” Chief Brian Fennessy told the Mountain West News Bureau. “But we're not going to suppress our way out of this situation.”

Proponents of a bill in Colorado say stronger roofs would mean less damage during storms, and lower home insurance costs.

When wildland firefighters are on prescribed fires, they’re breathing the same smoke and facing many of the same hazards found on wildfires, but they don’t get the same hazard pay. That could soon change.

The monthly National Interagency Fire Center outlooks are typically staid documents, providing just-the-facts analysis. But the latest is superlative-laden as it describes record-low snowpacks, record-early snow melt and record-high temperatures.

In recent years, concerns among the workforce about health risks of all kinds have been getting louder. And mental health is no exception.

As wildfires continue to pose a risk, many are coming together to share lessons they've learned and build our state's response to this growing threat.

Using new data, a team of scientists has assembled one of the first comprehensive analyses of emissions from homes burned in wildfires. What they found is that such pollution is serious, and in some cases can exceed emissions from all other human sources.