Last year, much of New York choked on the smoke from massive Canadian wildfires, at one point turning New York City’s air orange, giving City residents—temporarily—the worst air quality in the world.

Wildfires that consumed 5,300 acres in the lower Hudson Valley have climate scientists pondering whether this is our future.

The bottomland hardwood trees attracted those who settled the Sunken Lands of northeast Arkansas in the late 1800s ...

A major storm dropped more snow and record rain in California, causing small landslides and flooding some streets, while on ...

East Lyme ― Fire crews were back at the Friends of Oswegatchie Hills Nature Preserve on Tuesday to extinguish hot spots left over from a brush fire on Monday. Firefighters had spent most of ...

East Lyme ― Firefighters on Friday returned to the site of Thursday’s brush fire off Interstate 95 after it was determined it had not been fully extinguished, fire officials said. At 11:07 a.m ...

Wind gusts and low humidity are helping to fuel wildfires burning across the Northeast, with cities in ... which indicate an increased risk of fire danger due to warm temperatures, very low ...

Benjamin Norman for The New York Times An 18-year-old employee of the New York State parks system died on Saturday while fighting the fire. The employee, Dariel Vasquez, was helping to clear a ...

The Northeastern U.S. is experiencing ongoing drought conditions, which is helping to fuel an uptick in fire danger ... of Friday across parts of the Northeast and New England.

and officials thanked the person who spotted the fire and called it in to authorities. The latest blaze comes amid a weekslong drought in the Northeast, brought on by dry and unseasonably warm ...

Red flag warnings are in place across the Northeast, running from the Boston area south through the D.C. region and increasing the fire threat in a zone that has seen barely a drop of rain in more ...

“It’s a big system shock ... flag warnings — alerts for extreme fire danger — expired Friday morning, the National Weather Service said gusty northeast winds would continue through ...