More than 1,900 wildfires burned roughly 850,000 acres of Wyoming land in 2024, marking one of the worst fire years for the state. The price tag to suppress the fires has surpassed $56 million and ...
The Elk Fire, in other words, wasn’t just the largest wildfire in the 127-year-old Bighorn National Forest’s history — it was 5 times larger than anything in the record books. Superlatives can also be ...
A new airtanker base at Casper-Natrona County International Airport that opened this summer was well-timed. Short said that the planes dropped more than 829,000 gallons, or 460 loads, of fire ...
Despite the ultimate weather trend recently leaning toward wetter and colder conditions, yesterday was a particularly dry and warm day that gave the Elk Fire near Dayton, Wyoming, an extra boost in ...