The Idaho Department of Lands issued a reminder that "closed fire season" will end on Monday, October 20. This change means ...

Wildland firefighters engage in cold trailing while mopping up around the West Mountain Complex fires in Idaho on Aug. 26, 2024. Cold trailing is a method of controlling partly dead fire edges by ...

The Central Idaho Dispatch Zone, which includes the Salmon-Challis National Forest, elevated its fire danger to “very high” this week, U.S. Forest Service officials announced. In a press release ...

A helicopter drops water in an effort to suppress the Rock Fire, which is burning near Tamarack Resort in Idaho. The fire was started by lightning in August 2025. (Photo courtesy of Great Basin ...

IDAHO FALLS – State and federal land management agencies have put fire restrictions in place for all of eastern Idaho as it enters the heart of wildfire season. The Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire ...

UPDATE — 12:30 PM, August 7: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — As of 10:30 p.m. on August 6, firefighters successfully stopped the spread of the Lava Trail Fire, which burned 91 acres west of Idaho Falls.

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Lightning Creek Fire, burning approximately eight miles east-northeast of Hope, Idaho, within a few miles of the Montana-Idaho state line, has grown significantly since it was ...

The Idaho Public Utilities Commission has approved a new process for electric utilities to submit annual wildfire mitigation ...

BOISE, Idaho — The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) announced two recreational shooters must pay the agency more than $24,000 after reportedly sparking the Leeds and Chalky Butte fires in 2024.

HOPE, Idaho — A fire in the Lightning Creek drainage of Northern Idaho more than doubled in size Sunday, reaching almost 1,600 acres by 6 p.m., U.S. Forest Service officials said. "Yesterday's ...