wildfire preparedness

Several Northwest counties and the U.S. Forest Service are working to reduce the risk of fires overtaking key evacuation routes.

A year after President Biden's Earth Day visit to Seattle where he announced an order to identify and protect older forests, the results from the government's first-ever national inventory of mature and old-growth forests on federal land is being released.

The Biden administration is directing $930 million toward reducing wildfire dangers in 10 western states by clearing trees and underbrush from national forests. The work is projected to cost up to $50 billion. Last year’s climate and infrastructure bills combined included about $5 billion for the task.

Forecasters predicted strong, gusting winds and low humidity across western Oregon and Washington beginning Friday and authorities warned of heightened wildfire danger after an unseasonably hot and dry late summer. The red flag warning was in effect through Saturday, with temperatures in the 90s.

State and federal agencies are working to build their capacity for the use of prescribed fire to manage forests. That process began Sunday in Cle Elum as…

Where there’s heat, there is often fire. The fire risk on both sides of the Cascade Mountains is high in the week ahead, as temperatures will be zooming…

Megafires are the kind of wildland fires that grow beyond 100,000 acres. And they are a growing threat across the American West. That’s why one federal...

The Northwest saw several red flag warnings and fast-burning fires over the long holiday weekend. And in the last several years, regional firefighters...