Wildfires 2021

IDL presented a budget preview with a nearly 29% – or roughly $2 million – increase from the general fund.

Google Maps will soon launch a new filter that shows the location of active wildfires. Beyond just mapping fires, it will also provide local emergency information when available.

Higher elevations like mountain tops usually have more moisture, and fires historically hadn’t burned there very often. But that’s changing rapidly. The Dixie and Caldor fires in California are the first two wildfires ever recorded crossing the Sierra Nevada crest and burning down the other side.

A fire that began just east of Hailey shortly after 9:30 p.m. Thursday night, amid a thunder and lightning storm, forced some residents to evacuate.

As Western states battle thousands of acres of wildfires that are degrading air quality across the country, President Biden on Friday told Western governors that his infrastructure plan provides needed relief.

Air quality specialists say the smoky conditions that showed up earlier than usual this year, could stick around until October for some parts of the region.

As smoke continues to fill the Treasure Valley and other parts of the West, Idaho Matters shares tips for dealing with smoke and wildfire.

Severe wildfires across the West have prompted the nation’s top fire agency to increase its preparedness level to the highest and most critical stage — the earliest the agency has done so in a decade.

Fire officials in Idaho and the Rocky Mountain region are sounding the alarm of a potentially historic fire season.

Severe weather may have played a role in the deaths of two veteran firefighters in a plane crash in northwest Arizona over the weekend.