Grass fires burn far more American homes each year than forest fires. In southern Arizona, communities fight fires that never touch a tree.

Dry conditions will continue across the southwestern US into June, typically our driest time of year in Arizona. But the ...

The National Weather Service (NWS) cautions that a red flag warning indicates critical fire weather conditions are either underway or likely to develop shortly. Conditions can include a combination of ...

There are four primary weather conditions meteorologists like Rickey monitor during fire season and active wildfires: heat, dryness, wind and atmospheric instability. As Arizona enters its hottest ...

which is far more widespread in southern Arizona: grass. “When we have training, often the films that they show us are California or Colorado fires, ponderosa fires,” said Juanita Havill ...

Valley fever fungal infections are on the rise in California as climate change leads to drier summers and wetter winters.

President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to merge the government’s wildland firefighting efforts into a single ...

In the days and weeks after brush fires ravaged Altadena and Pacific Palisades ... a master's degree candidate at Arizona State University’s Narrative and Emerging Media Program.

As of Monday morning, the NWS had issued red flag warnings for parts of California, New Mexico, Arizona, and Texas. In Arizona, a red flag warning was issued for much of the eastern region of the ...

Rickey is regularly one of the fire meteorologists working behind the scenes, monitoring weather conditions in Arizona and California during ... making fires easier to start.