Jasper, Lytton, Los Angeles, Fort McMurray — the last few years have been filled with unprecedented fire disasters, taking lives and destroying communities and economies.Now, scientists have the data ...

Indirect costs — including disaster recovery, property loss, environmental damages, and business and health costs — can push the total costs of wildfires 1.5 to 20 times higher.

When a wildfire engulfed the Canadian oil-sands boomtown of Fort McMurray two years ago, it hit insurance company Aviva PLC out of nowhere. The British firm had been active in Canada since 1835. Its ...

EDMONTON, Canada (WTVD) -- Seeing images of the massive Fort McMurray Fire in Canada inspired Jim McGrath, of Clayton, to go there and help. Global News reports it took him almost four days to drive ...

FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta -- The images are ones of devastation - scorched homes, virtually whole neighborhoods burned to the ground. It rained a little Sunday morning in Fort McMurray, but Canadian ...

In his masterful book, “Fire Weather: On the Front Lines of a Burning World,” John Vaillant looks at the wildfire that destroyed much of Fort McMurray, Alberta, in 2016. Fire officials, the city’s ...