The data’s in for 2025. It was yet another year of back-to-back billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the U.S.

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire ...

Wildfire disasters worldwide are growing notably in frequency and cost, according to a new study, with nearly half of the most damaging events over the last 44 years occurring in just the past decade, ...

A recent CounterPunch article by Faith Kearns argued that municipal watersheds should be “thinned” or logged to reduce wildfire risk, citing California’s Tubbs and Camp Fires, Oregon’s Almeda Fire, ...

A new study found that climate change has driven a surge of “societally disastrous” wildfires over the last four decades, with 43% of the most costly events occurring in the last 10 years. Reading ...

On the one-year anniversary of the Southern California wildfires, elected officials from Los Angeles County and across the ...

Disasters such as wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent occurrences, leaving homeowners scrambling for ways to proactively protect themselves and recover financially. Traditional insurance ...

Colorado politicians on both sides of the aisle are pushing back after President Donald Trump’s administration denied two disaster declaration requests that would have unlocked federal funds for ...

PARADISE, Calif. (AP) — Nearly seven years after Paradise was ravaged by wildfire, the foothill town smells like pine trees again. New homes are sprouting up on once-scorched lots. Construction trucks ...

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