wildfires

Is your house at risk of a wildfire? This online tool could tell you

3:32pm May 16, 2022

by Lauren Sommer

Many people move without realizing the danger that wildfires pose to their new home. A new risk rating system could help buyers learn more on real estate sites.

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Kylee Moberg tries to get through a road block on N.M. 94 to get to her friend and horses on Friday. Destructive Southwest fires have burned dozens of homes in northern Arizona and put numerous small villages in New Mexico in the path of danger.

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Over 12 wildfires are burning in Arizona and New Mexico

5:29pm April 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed emergency declarations, and in Arizona, a Flagstaff-area fire burned 30 homes and numerous other buildings.

A fire burns along a hillside in Ruidoso, N.M., on Wednesday. Officials say a wildfire has burned about 150 structures, including homes, in Ruidoso.

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A wind-driven wildfire in New Mexico is believed to have killed 2 people

11:55am April 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Thousands of residents were displaced as firefighters scouted the mountainsides around a village looking for opportunities to slow a wildfire that burned at least 150 homes and other structures.

Firefighters work at the scene of forest fire near Kyuyorelyakh village west of Yakutsk, in Russia on Aug. 5, 2021.

Wildfires will increase and worsen globally, U.N. warns

5:11am February 23, 2022

by The Associated Press

The study being released on Wednesday warns of spikes in unhealthy smoke pollution and other problems coming from the increased threat of catastrophic wildfires.

The Colorado Fire burns along Highway 1 near Big Sur, Calif., on Saturday.

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A wildfire near California's Big Sur forces residents to evacuate

9:01pm January 22, 2022

by The Associated Press

A wind-driven wildfire broke out late Friday in the rugged mountains above Big Sur, forcing residents to evacuate from their homes and authorities to shut down a stretch of Pacific Coast Highway.

Taylor Korn, and her roommate, Jorge Zaragoza, with their dogs Gerti (left) and Gidget. The third dog is Scarlett, a rescue dog and the mother of the other two pups, belongs to Korn's friends and was elsewhere during the fire.

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After losing everything in the Colorado wildfires, she's struggling to start over

8:15am January 02, 2022

by Dustin Jones

Taylor Korn, a lifelong Boulder, Colo., resident, had already lost her father and grandmother this past summer. Then a wildfire took her home and two dogs.

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Eight inches of snow on Friday and early Saturday helped extinguish the wildfires that prompted the evacuation of more than 30,000 people in suburban Colorado.

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Snow puts out Colorado wildfires with 3 people missing and nearly 1,000 homes burned

6:05pm January 01, 2022

by Becky Sullivan

Local officials said three people were still unaccounted for after the most destructive wildfires in Colorado history. Authorities also raised the count of homes destroyed to nearly 1,000.

Dec. 30: Broomfield, Colo. — Homes burn as a wildfire rips through a development near Rock Creek Village.

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Photos: Wildfires engulf 1,000 homes in suburban Denver

3:56pm December 31, 2021

The Colorado wildfires follow an unusually dry fall and winter in the state. Officials suspect the blaze was caused by downed power lines.

Damage to homes burned by wildfires after they ripped through a development are shown Friday in Superior, Colo.

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Urban wildfires burned 6,000 acres near Denver

2:31pm December 31, 2021

by Tom Goldman

Officials call it a miracle that there've been no reports of deaths in the blazes, which destroyed at least 500 homes — and perhaps twice that number. In some cases families had just minutes to flee.

Burn ban remains in place for Triad and High Country

4:26pm December 09, 2021

by Paul Garber

State forest fire officials have lifted an outdoor burn ban for about one-third of the state's counties.