A week after a woman accused of igniting a wildfire that burned thousands of acres in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Florida Forest Service has taken command.

Colorado, like many other states in the West, relies on federal firefighting teams to battle large-scale fires across its federal public lands, which cover about a third of the state.

Washington lawmakers are raising the alarm about the impact Trump's mass government layoffs could have on wildfire mitigation.

The United States Forest Service is offering salvage timber contracts to remove downed but still commercially-usable trees ...

Forest Service layoffs threaten wildfire prevention efforts, raising concerns about public safety in the American West. Fired workers warn of increased wildfire risks due to reduced staffing for trail ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited Asheville Thursday to survey fire and Helene damage with U.S. Forest ...

The U.S. Forest Service fired 2,000 probationary workers. The agency says none were "operational firefighters," but some helped battle wildfires.

In areas with higher wildfire risk, the share of older populations is greater than in places with lower wildfire risk, the Agriculture Department’s Economic Research Service (ERS) said in a chart ...

Officials say the largest fire is happening in Uwharrie National Forest in Montgomery County, with about 300 acres burned, ...

By Christopher Flavelle and Austyn Gaffney Despite being in office for less than a month, the Trump administration has already made the United States ... from the U.S. Forest Service, which ...

urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture to reinstate the roughly 3,400 United States Forest Service employees who were reportedly laid off en masse this week. Colorado U.S. Senators Michael ...