Wildfires are typically common on the West Coast in the United States, often affecting places like California, Arizona and other states. However, "significant" wildfires have since broken out on the ...

Several dozen wildfires burning in Canada have led local authorities to declare states of emergencies and forced thousands of people to evacuate. Now, they are expected to send smoke drifting into the ...

Smoke from wildfires is not something to be taken lightly, as it impacts air quality for miles. The danger of it can be measured on the air quality index (AQI), a scale that goes from zero to over 300 ...

As wildfires spread across Canada, air quality in the U.S. continues to be impacted, and people sensitive to air pollution could face "serious health effects," according to a government website that ...

An arm of the U.S. Department of Energy has unveiled an online public database with 400 wildfire mitigation plans from electric utility companies in 19 states to increase wildfire resilience at a time ...