Fire Season 2025

Firefighter J. Hank Hester was from Idaho and working on the Dragon Bravo Fire when he died Monday following a cardiac emergency.

Scientists finalized their reports on how the Grand Canyon National Park's Dragon Bravo Fire impacted the environment across its 145,000-acre burn area.

Kaibab National Forest officials have reopened 77,000 acres north of the Grand Canyon that was closed last month because of the White Sage and Dragon Bravo fires.

Reporting by the Arizona Republic alleged national park officials didn’t follow their own wildfire management plan in the days leading to the Dragon Bravo Fire's blowup.

Federal officials released the results of the assessment of the Dragon Bravo Fire's impact on the soil of the Grand Canyon's North Rim and the potential aftereffects.

Grand Canyon National Park officials have reopened sections of the South Kaibab, Bright Angel and Tonto trails that were closed after the Dragon Bravo Fire exploded in size last month.

Officials with the Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs say a wildfire that started last week at Camp Navajo west of Flagstaff is burning in an area that contains "conventional unexploded ordnance."

The Gila County Division of Emergency Management has ordered evacuations for three communities near the lightning-caused Washington Fire about 11 miles north of Payson.

The iconic statue of a famous burro housed in the Grand Canyon Lodge on the North Rim, thought to be lost forever due to the Dragon Bravo Fire, is safe.

The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office has placed some residents east of State Route 179 in Set pre-evacuation status because of a wildfire first reported Wednesday afternoon.