The Idaho Department of Lands issued a reminder that "closed fire season" will end on Monday, October 20. This change means ...

U.S. Army soldiers with the 14th Brigade Engineer Battalion walk a grid pattern fighting the Boulder Fire in Idaho's Boise National Forest on Aug. 22, 2024. (Clark Corbin/Idaho Capital Sun) The ...

A helicopter drops water in an effort to suppress the Rock Fire, which is burning near Tamarack Resort in Idaho. The fire was started by lightning in August 2025. (Photo courtesy of Great Basin ...

IDAHO FALLS – State and federal land management agencies have put fire restrictions in place for all of eastern Idaho as it enters the heart of wildfire season. The Eastern Idaho Interagency Fire ...

UPDATE — 12:30 PM, August 7: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) — As of 10:30 p.m. on August 6, firefighters successfully stopped the spread of the Lava Trail Fire, which burned 91 acres west of Idaho Falls.

With the arrival of cooler temperatures and lower wildfire risks, crews have scheduled a series of prescribed fires in forests across Idaho this fall in an effort to protect communities and natural ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Lightning Creek Fire, burning approximately eight miles east-northeast of Hope, Idaho, within a few miles of the Montana-Idaho state line, has grown significantly since it was ...

The following is a news release from the US Forest Service Caribou-Targhee National Forest: IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (KIFI) —As the threat of wildfire danger has lessened over the past week, state and ...

BONNER COUNTY, Idaho -- Firefighters are gaining control over the growing wildfire burning near Hope, Idaho on Sunday afternoon, according to Department of Natural Resources. As of August 17, the ...

HOPE, Idaho — A fire in the Lightning Creek drainage of Northern Idaho more than doubled in size Sunday, reaching almost 1,600 acres by 6 p.m., U.S. Forest Service officials said. "Yesterday's ...

The Central Idaho Dispatch Zone, which includes the Salmon-Challis National Forest, elevated its fire danger to “very high” this week, U.S. Forest Service officials announced. In a press release ...