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.

Thousands of acres are ablaze in North and South Carolina as the states could face severe weather on Wednesday.

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins visited Asheville Thursday to survey fire and Helene damage with U.S. Forest Service members and local EMS staff.

The Trump administration’s moves to slash Forest Service personnel and pause wildfire-related grants have left states to pick up the pieces on prevention and mitigation

The United States Forest Service is offering salvage timber contracts to remove downed but still commercially-usable trees left in the wake of Hurricane Helene

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 released this week.

Henry McMaster declared a state of emergency Sunday to support wildfire efforts across the state. The Carolina Forest Fire ... major fires in the western United States have concluded.

Ore., announced Monday that Liz Crandall, a former U.S. Forest Service ranger from Bend who was recently fired by DOGE, will be her guest for President Trump’s Joint Address to Congress Tuesday evening.

The United States Forest Service (USFS) is terminating approximately 3,400 employees ... Among their many activities, USFS employees track and manage threats to forests like pests, disease and wildfire. All of these threats spread faster on a warmer ...