Fire Season 2025

Crews have now fully contained the Dragon Bravo Fire nearly three months after it was ignited by lightning near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon.

Officials at Grand Canyon National Park will reopen two popular North Rim viewpoints next week that were closed because of the Dragon Bravo Fire.

The Dragon Bravo fire continues to burn in remote pockets of the park. Federal officials have not yet provided details on their response to lawmakers.

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."