USA TODAY combed through historic records and talked with experts to produce this list of the nation's biggest fires.

The Cedar Creek Fire grew to 73,922 acres with 12% containment by Saturday afternoon after a period of extreme growth Friday ...

Evacuations will be lifted Sunday for all homes impacted by the Davis Fire, according to Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District. Check perimetermap.com for the latest on road closures and ...

The start of the school year is a great time to teach about wildfire in Alaska, write four authors in a commentary for the ...

It extends from the Bering Strait in northern Alaska (which separates the Pacific and Arctic oceans ... Johnathan Ley created ...

Alaska had the third-most youths trying e-cigarettes ... There have also been cases of e-cigarettes exploding or catching ...

By subduing the Alaska Natives with fire power, Russian control grew stronger ... Harriman was not an ethnographer or a map-maker. He was a business man, a stock broker turned railroad owner ...

A hazardous materials spill caused U.S. 2 to shut down in Monroe Wednesday morning, Snohomish Regional Fire and Rescue ...

28 (UPI) --A Second Court of Appeals three-judge panel Wednesday granted former Alaska Gov ... Palin's political action committee had "circulated a map of targeted electoral districts that ...

WJCL's Chief Meteorologist Jeremy Nelson, in Savannah, is teaming up with WESH Meteorologist Eric Burris, in Orlando, to ...

A power outage in North Seattle is impacting approximately 18,000 customers, Seattle City Light reported Wednesday afternoon.

A map of evacuation areas is available ... On the east side of the fire: East of Waldo Lake, the Alaska Incident Management Team has established two branches and six divisions to work in the ...