Without more details about the early response to the Dragon Bravo Fire, the same mistakes could be repeated, and not just at the Grand Canyon.

Two massive wildfires burning in Arizona and Utah are doing more than scorching the landscape. They’re generating towering “fire clouds” that make firefighting nearly impossible. These towering ...

A wildfire burning in a sparsely populated region of central Oregon has become the largest fire this year and is on the verge ...

A: A pyrocumulus is a fire cloud. A pyrocumulus cloud forms from rising air that results from intense heating of the surface by phenomena such as wildfires or volcanic eruptions. The fires that ...

A towering pyrocumulus cloud rose some 35,000 feet into the air as the raging Delta Fire threw its claws of flames across thousands of acres of bone-dry forestland in Shasta County.

Wildfires can become hot enough to produce rare mushroom-cloud like formation known as pyrocumulus clouds. When they form they will tower above the ash and smoke.

Pyrocumulus clouds can also increase wildfire spotting, which is when a fire produces sparks or embers that are carried by the wind and start new blazes beyond the zone of the main one.