Video footage from Friday shows a rotating inferno surrounded by smoke in the Pacific Palisades fire that has devastated the LA area.

A tornado ripped through rice fields in Indonesia. The whirlwind reportedly damaged dozens of nearby homes in Maros district, ...

The video shows a pair of fire whirls from the Remington Fire, which began in August 2024 and burned through parts of Wyoming and Montana.

Spring is the most active time for tornadoes in Mississippi, but the National Weather Service says residents need to be prepared year-round.

A fire tornado can stretch hundreds of feet into the sky and have winds that spin at speeds over 100 miles per hour. It’s essentially a tornado filled with fire and debris. Fire tornadoes are ...

The National Wildfire Coordinating Group’s glossary of wildland fire terms doesn’t include an entry for fire tornado, but it defines a fire whirl as a “spinning vortex column of ascending ...

A spinning fire vortex spotted on video Friday among the flames in a raging Pacific Palisades wildfire looks similar to a tornado, but scientists are still examining whether it was a rare fire ...

Fire Tornadoes Pose a Threat in California. A Fire Lab Shows How They Work As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but ...