The European Commission has now distanced itself from the comments, saying Hoekstra misspoke and that there is no new 300-firefighter force being created or deployed. Hoekstra was actually talking ...

Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller declared an Agriculture Emergency on Wednesday, stemming from alleged devastating losses to farmers in the state from wildfires. Large portions of the Texas ...

An over 30-year veteran at the U.S. Forest Service will now be solely responsible for the world’s largest wildland fire organization. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Wednesday announced it ...

Roads have long played an important role in managing fires on public lands, but newly published research found that roads have also increased wildfire ignitions and ecosystem damage.

The Fire Grand Challenge is a competition to advance practical tools and approaches for wildfire mitigation, response, and landscape recovery. The organisers say the finalists were selected from a ...

Wildfire Today has been reporting on the development of a “rapid reaction force” in the EU for years, with the late longtime fire journalist Bill Gabbert reporting in 2008 that the European Commission ...

The reported number of wildfires nationwide was noticeably higher than the five and 10-year averages, according to the report. Nearly 77,850 wildfires burned throughout the nation in 2025, compared ...

The 10 largest wildfires in Australia in 2025. Graphic: NAFI. 2025 was a big year for fire across northern Australia. This graphic shows the full extent of the 10 biggest wildfire events across ...