If Wildfire Is Not A National Security Issue, What Is It? It Just Remains Another Low Priority Budget, Agency, And Workforce.

An editorial from the HotShot Wakeup railed at the fact that wildfires are not being given priority by government officials, especially Congress, as a national security issue, unlike other issues like military preparedness.

If Wildfire Is Not A National Security Issue, What Is It? It Just Remains Another Low Priority Budget, Agency, And Workforce.

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‘Pyroterrorists’ may increasingly use wildfire as a weapon, expert warns

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Hunter Bassler, a Journalist at the IAWF's Wildfire Today, highlighted Fire as a Weapon – the European Experience, which was published in the counter-terrorism medical journal ASPIS Medical in July 2025, providing an example of how wildfires can be used as a weapon, both by terrorists and other violent actors.

‘Pyroterrorists’ may increasingly use wildfire as a weapon, expert warns/

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Ecologist Michelle Mack Advocates For Forest-Based Solutions to Curb Wildfire Emissions

A Northern Arizona University ecologist discussed how targeted firefighting and planting fewer flammable trees could help slow a cycle of warming and worsening wildfires in North America’s boreal forest, as high northern latitudes warm three to four times faster than the rest of the planet.

Ecologist Michelle Mack Advocates For Forest-Based Solutions to Curb Wildfire Emissions

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Colonial Land Use Linked to Australia's Bushfire Crisis

A new study published in the journal Nature by researchers at the University of Melbourne revealed that forest expansion and thickening after British colonization has created landscapes more prone to bushfires, amplifying the influence of climate change and propelling Australia's bushfire crisis.

Colonial Land Use Linked to Australia's Bushfire Crisis

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Risk conditions not properly captured before Bell 412 firefighting helicopter’s uncommanded descent

Australian Transportation Safety Board officials announced their findings on a Bell 412EP helicopter crash on March 10, 2025, about 55 km north-east of Strahan, in western Tasmania, noting that the helicopter entered an uncommanded descent while filling its bucket from a river during firebombing operations at the Canning Peak fireground.

Risk conditions not properly captured before Bell 412 firefighting helicopter’s uncommanded descent

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These Are The 10 Largest Wildfires In 2026 So Far

In a year in which nearly 63,000 wildfires have burned more than 9 million acres nationwide, exceeding the 10-year averages for number of fires and acreage burned by 35% and 47%, respectively, the National Interagency Fire Center listed this year's ten worst wildfires.

These Are The 10 Largest Wildfires In 2026 So Far

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Why even resilient forests are struggling to regrow after wildfires

Researchers across the US are alarmed that forests which are historically adapted to wildfires are now often being obliterated by the fast-moving, high temperature blazes that are becoming increasingly more common with climate change.

Why even resilient forests are struggling to regrow after wildfires

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