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Crews were battling scores of wildfires around Virginia on Thursday, including a fire affecting hundreds of acres at Shenandoah National Park, amid an elevated fire risk, officials said. More than ...
LURAY — Shenandoah National Park has closed Skyline Drive from Thornton Gap (mile 31.5) to Mathews Arm (mile 22.1) due to the Rocky Branch Wildfire, according to a press release from the ...
New Jersey Forest Fire Service members spray down the scorched earth on East Shore Road while monitoring the West Milford Jennings Creek wildfire on Nov. 12, 2024. Wildfires burn from coast-to ...
The 2024 Virginia wildfire season is an ongoing series of wildfires that have been burning throughout the U.S. state of Virginia.During the 2024 Spring wildfire season between February 15 to April 30, at least 411 wildfires burnt "nearly 20,000 acres", the largest area burned in the last 30 years in that time period, and nearly ten times as much as the 2023 Spring season with 2,174 acres.
Across the state of Connecticut in late October, 70 wildfires were reported. [8] One such fire, the Hawthorne Fire, resulted in a firefighter being killed on October 22, with two others being injured. [9] By November 1, a statewide burn ban was issued in Maryland. [10] Firefighters put out a brush fire in Highbridge Park, Manhattan
A fire burning north of us is the largest of a series of fires fueling a vast canopy of smoke across the Northeast. Va. wildfires contributing to smoke across the Northeast Skip to main content
Due to unprecedented dry weather and higher temperatures that are fueling wildfires, Gov. Phil Murphy announced a Drought Warning Advisory. As wildfires rage, NJ is now in a drought warning, Gov ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).