A map showing how SMHI estimates the Wind Fire Risk will be on June 12th, over dry grassland in the Stockholm Archipelago in 2018. Photo: Stina Stjernkvist/TT, Graphic: SMHI/Lantmäteriet Sweden is on ...

Home owners and emergency personnel prepare to evacuate a village threatened by the approaching forest fire near Sala, Central Sweden, on Monday Aug. 4, 2014.

Nearly 100 people were forced to leave their homes overnight in Sweden, emergency officials said Thursday, as dozens of forest fires rage across the country as far north as the Arctic Circle. The ...

Firefighters said the deadly forest fire that has raged in central Sweden for a week-and-a-half is now under control, but work remains before those who were evacuated can return to their homes ...

Larsson was involved in fighting forest fires in 2014 and 2018 and he said that Sweden's authorities had significantly improved their preparedness when it came to forest fires since those two bad ...