wildfire season

“You can look at a piece of brush and just yell ‘fire’ and it will start.” That’s how Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin described current drought conditions to the county commissioners at their workshop on Monday.

2022 is shaping up to be another grim year for the climate crisis, with heat and drought records being broken across the Western United States. Coloradans can take simple steps to help protect their properties against wildfires, which are becoming a year-round phenomenon.

It’s wildfire season across the Four Corners, and peak wildfire season in some places. KUER’s Lexi Peery has more on how people in Utah and others in the region can be prepared.

Coloradans are on edge as climate change is fueling bigger, more destructive fires that are destroying entire neighborhoods and forcing evacuations all sound the state. Some forecasters say things could get worse this summer than they’ve ever been.

Smoke from the Bootleg Fire in Oregon has polluted skies as far a New York City.

Tens of millions of dollars in state and federal money is finally reaching Grand Lake, Colorado as the mountain community rebuilds after last year’s…

The federal government is releasing water from reservoirs in Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico in an emergency attempt to prop up the nation’s second…