After weeks of Red Flag Warnings that kept local fire departments busy putting out fires, Crawford County’s burn ban is being allowed to expire. Officials remind ...

Burn bans in Oklahoma restrict outdoor burning to prevent wildfires and are enforced by state law, according to the Oklahoma ...

Oklahoma County Commissioner Brian Maughan discussed the current fire risk conditions and why the county has not yet enacted ...

The North Carolina Forest Service enacted a statewide burning ban on Friday because of hazardous fire conditions across the state. Local fire officials in Guilford County are urging residents to pay ...

Due to an increased fire risk, the North Carolina Forest Service is issuing a burn ban for all North Carolinian counties ...

North Carolina is under a statewide burn ban for the first time in more than three years due to extreme wildfire risk.

Caddo Parish has implemented an immediate parish-wide burn ban effective Tuesday evening, due to heightened fire danger.

Gusts on Thursday night reached 45 mph in Winston-Salem and 40 mph in Greensboro, the National Weather Service said Friday.

The NC Forest Service has issued a statewide burn ban starting at 8 a.m. on Friday, March 21. The burn ban will remain in place until further notice.  The ban prohibits all open burning ...

Local Emergency Management officials, in conjunction with the North Carolina Forest Service, have issued a countywide burning ...

The bans prohibit any burning within 100 feet of a structure, including yard waste, debris and land-clearing burns. The Burke County ban includes cooking fires with grills and smokers.

With dry and windy conditions expected to continue at least through part of today, Crawford County residents are asked to keep refraining from any outdoor burning until further notice. “There have ...