Ruinous fires across the West often lead to smoke-filled days with flames tearing through large swaths of natural land. While most of these fires are started by people, many fires start because of ...

In Britain, lightning causes an average of two deaths a year; in South Africa, it can be well over 200. Near Pretoria over ...

More than a dozen new wildfires ignited across the Cascades over the weekend from lightning strikes, adding to an already grueling wildfire season in Washington and the broader Pacific Northwest.

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Thunderstorms rolled through parts of the West Valley early Wednesday with the lightning sparking two fires in Avondale. A lot of the lightning action in the Valley moved between ...

QUILCENE — A lightning-caused wildfire is burning in a remote area of the Buckhorn Wilderness in Olympic National Forest. U.S. Forest Service fire managers located the fire Tuesday about 10 miles west ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Firefighters are battling a series of wildfires that erupted in north-central California after thousands of lightning strikes were ...

Over a dozen new wildfires ignited in Washington due to lightning strikes over the weekend. There are currently 13 active wildfires across the state, with most being only about one-third contained.