Wildfire News

Coconino National Forest, the City of Flagstaff and Coconino County officials will implement stage 1 fire restrictions ahead of Memorial Day Weekend amid windy and dry conditions.

The North Rim of the Grand Canyon reopened Friday eight months after the Dragon Bravo Fire burned 145,000 acres and destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge.

Another severe wildfire season is forecast for the Western U.S. due to record-breaking heat and an abysmal snowpack, but some states and utilities are trying to get ahead of that threat using AI.

Meteorologists say the drought in Arizona will likely continue to worsen with warm, dry conditions in store and after the Flagstaff area received less than a third of its seasonal snowfall.

Crews from the Coconino National Forest are trying to contain and extinguish a 115-acre wildfire burning near the Mogollon Rim.

For the first time, the Trump administration is considering giving wildland firefighters the same hazard pay for prescribed burns that they receive while working to suppress wildfires.

A longtime wildfire prevention crew that served communities around Flagstaff has been disbanded. Residents and former fire officials are weighing the impact ahead of a potentially active fire season.

A nurse who works with patients with high-risk newborns says she wishes the state’s largest utility company would’ve given more notice before the outage so families could charge their medical equipment.