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Efforts were underway to contain the active fires in the Carolinas. Here are maps illustrating the current situation. Maps of Carolina fires / Credit: North Carolina Forest Service Officials ...

Efforts were underway to contain the active fires in the Carolinas. Here are maps illustrating the current situation. Officials listed 81 wildfires in North Carolina as of Thursday morning ...

High winds and dry conditions have significantly heightened the fire risk across Texas, prompting officials to warn of "extreme fire danger" in West Texas, stretching from the Big Bend region ...

Some 10 fires were classified as active on a map from the North Carolina Forest Service as of Tuesday morning. In Polk County, a 593-acre fire was 63 percent contained as of 10:13 p.m. on Monday ...

Firefighters battled over 170 blazes across North and South Carolina over the weekend as dry conditions and strong winds fueled fast-moving wildfires, prompting evacuations and sending residents ...

With dry conditions across the Carolinas creating tinderbox conditions, wildfires are burning in the region. The largest fire in the Upstate is a nearly 500-acre blaze near Landrum in Polk County ...

Anna Skinner is a Newsweek senior reporter based in Indianapolis. Her focus is reporting on the climate, environment and weather but she also reports on other topics for the National News Team ...

(Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) New maps issued by state fire officials show several Bay Area cities with striking increases in areas deemed at high and very high likelihood of wildfire ...

Cal Fire has released a long-awaited set of updated maps outlining the fire hazard severity zones in Marin County and elsewhere in the Bay Area. Marin fire officials say the maps, while mostly ...

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations ...