With warm and dry conditions on Monday, the Lee Fire in Rio Blanco and Garfield counties remains at 60% containment as of ...

The Lee Fire has scorched over 133,000 acres in northwest Colorado, ranking among the state’s largest wildfires as drought ...

A new wildfire sparked in the “remote, rugged terrain” of White River National Forest on Sunday and has consumed 25 acres, ...

Wildland firefighting is exhausting, hot, dirty and stressful. It is also a smoky and possibly dangerous job where ...

Crews are making progress on two fires burning near Meeker, with the Elk Fire now 100% contained and the Lee Fire 61% contained, according to an update Monday.

Four wildfires burning in western Colorado have consumed more than 250 square miles, threatened hundreds of homes and forced ...

Governor Jared Polis on Thursday issued a broad emergency declaration covering multiple wildfires currently burning on the ...

After a weekend of firefighters battling a growing wildfire, the Lee Fire near Meeker has now burned 137,485 acres. It’s ...

Significant progress was made to contain and control the Elk and Lee Fires in Rio Blanco County near Meeker over the weekend.

Historically dry fuels and long stretches of fire weather have led to the conditions driving one of Colorado's biggest ...

Officials announced Saturday that the lightning-sparked Elk Fire, first reported on Aug. 2, 11 miles southeast of Meeker in Rio Blanco County, is fully contained.

Reppenhagen said hot conditions and dry lightning helped spark, then grow, the Lee Fire, and heat is making it hard to cool off this fire. "As soon as the heat starts to build, 11:00, noon, you can ...