Latest Wildfire Headlines
All the headlines from our Wildfire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Update: North Carolina Wildfire Costs Reach $4.9 Million
Jun 23 2008 // The cost to fight a massive wildfire in eastern North Carolina is going up. Fire command center spokesman Dean McAlister said June 19 the costs have reached $4.9 million. Officials battling the fire in and around the...
AIG Private Client Group Expands Wildfire Protection Services
Jun 19 2008 // AIG Private Client Group, a division of the personal lines property and casualty insurance subsidiaries of American International Group Inc., announced that its Wildfire Protection Unit service has doubled the number of...
Firefighters in California Struggling to Get Upper Hand on Fire
Jun 16 2008 // High wind on Saturday, June 13, 2008, continued to stoke fires across Northern California that had destroyed dozens of homes and forced thousands of residents to flee. At least 66 homes had been destroyed with 17 others...
North Carolina Wildfire Could Burn for Months
Jun 16 2008 // Fire officials warned people living near a massive wildfire at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern North Carolina that the blaze could smolder for months in the peat-filled soil. The fire burned about 30,000 acres in and...
Northern California Wildfires Forces Hundreds to Flee Homes
Jun 13 2008 // Firefighters struggled to gain control of a series of wind-driven wildfires burning across Northern California, including a raging forest fire that forced hundreds to flee their homes in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The...
North Carolina Fire Grows by 10%, Homes Evacuated
Jun 12 2008 // Winds whipped up an eastern North Carolina wildfire June 10, expanding its footprint by more than 10 percent and forcing the evacuation of 50 homes, officials said. Firefighters scrambled to strengthen or build about 20...
Crews Continue to Battle Wildfire at Eastern North Carolina Refuge
Jun 10 2008 // Fire crews plan to continue building containment lines around a massive wildfire that is burning in a sparsely inhabited rural area of eastern North Carolina. Spokesman Bill Swartley of the North Carolina Forest Service...
Authorities Say North Carolina Wildfire Could Burn for Months
Jun 9 2008 // Fire officials warned people living near a massive wildfire at a federal wildlife refuge in eastern North Carolina that the blaze could smolder for months in the peat-filled soil. The fire burned about 30,000 acres in and...
Survey: Hundreds Underinsured in Last Year’s California Wildfires
Jun 9 2008 // Hundreds of people who lost homes in last year’s wildfires did not have enough insurance to cover their rebuilding costs, according to a survey sponsored by United Policyholders, a San Francisco consumer...
39 Homeowners Near North Carolina Wildfire Told to Evacuate
Jun 6 2008 // Authorities in eastern North Carolina are telling 39 homeowners to evacuate after a wildfire jumped containment lines. The blaze in the Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge has burned up to 10,000 acres, or nearly 16...
Firefighters Get Upper Hand on Florida Wildfire, Schools Open
May 16 2008 // Firefighters hoped to make further major gains against a wildfire that has charred thousands of acres along Florida’s Atlantic coast, as police questioned a man seen tossing a Molotov cocktail into nearby...
Arson-started Florida Wildfires Fueled by Growth
May 15 2008 // Wildfires that have gutted at least 40 homes along Florida’s Atlantic coast are believed to have been started by arsonists, but they got help from two classic Florida factors: rampant development and a year-round...
Central Florida Wildfires Prompt Evacuations, Road Closures
May 13 2008 // Brush fires shut down roads in central Florida on May 11 and forced evacuations, authorities said. A portion of Interstate 95 in Brevard County was shut down because of heavy smoke from a blaze near Malabar, the Orlando...
Florida Authorities Work to Contain Wildfire at Lake Okeechobee
May 7 2008 // Florida officials are working to contain a wildfire at Lake Okeechobee. The state Division of Forestry says about 4,000 acres of muck and grass are burning on the dry lake bed near Moore Haven, about 80 miles west of West...
Survey: Majority of October’s California Wildfire Claims Settled
May 5 2008 // A new survey of insurance companies estimated that nearly 90 percent of claims stemming from the devastating October 2007 fire and wind storms in California have been settled. A poll by the Insurance Information Network of...
Homes, Schools Threatened as Fires Scorch Nevada, Arizona and California
May 1 2008 // Firefighters had to contend with gale-force winds while battling a huge brush fire that raced along the edge of a valley south of Reno, forcing a major highway to close, threatening homes, and causing the evacuation of a...
Wildfire Near Los Angeles Forces 1,000 to Evacuate Homes
Apr 30 2008 // Crews overcame a threatening flare-up Monday and worked to halt a wildfire east of Los Angeles that has sent 1,000 people fleeing their homes. Water-dropping aircraft were back in the air April 28 to complement ground...
Experts Say Potential for Arizona Wildfires Extreme
Apr 30 2008 // Wildland fire officials are warning of a potential disaster in southeastern Arizona. Fire behavior analysts with the Eastern Arizona Incident Management Team say the potential for extreme wildfire conditions are the worst...
100 Homes Evacuated as Wildfire Burns Near Pasadena, Calif.
Apr 28 2008 // A wildfire that has scorched 270 acres and forced the evacuation of about 100 homes in neighborhoods near Pasadena might not be under control for days, officials said Sunday. Firefighters originally had hoped to have the...
Fewer Tennessee Wildfires as Season Winds Down
Apr 25 2008 // As the wildfire season winds down in Tennessee, officials say it has been much less active than last year’s. Forestry Division assistant district forester Nathan Waters said by the week ending April 19, about 9,000...
