The Coronado National Forest said the Benton Fire began Wednesday afternoon and was around 50 acres with zero containment as ...

Battling a wildfire is never the same fight twice. The type of vegetation and terrain firefighters encounter can completely ...

Forecasts call for hot, dry and windy conditions in an already challenging Arizona wildfire season. Officials have imposed ...

Dry conditions and the influence of climate change have set up Arizona and the Southwest for a "rough" wildfire season. Forests are already dry and also suffering from a pine beetle invasion, which ...

The Hazen Fire, burning a mile southwest of Buckeye, has been 10% contained at 1,049 acres as of 2 p.m. on May 5, according to a briefing from the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.

This wildfire season, brushy tamarisks, also known as salt cedars, are a catalyst for Arizona blazes that foul the air with acrid smoke.

Riverbank-choking thickets of tamarisks have long created a bristly nuisance and an environmental scourge in central Arizona and much of the arid West. This wildfire season, the brushy trees ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — As fire crews battle the Jones Fire near Wickenburg and a massive wildfire burning near Buckeye, officials frequently use one term: containment. Containment has nothing to do with ...

The Yaqui Fire started in the borderlands near the south end of the Huachucas, and initially closed a remote park. By May 15, the road had reopened.