California’s Line Fire is burning so intensely that it created its own weather. Dramatic pyrocumulus, or “fire clouds,” exploded over the fire Monday at the exact time a high-resolution weather ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Smoke and heat from a massive wildfire in southeastern Oregon are creating giant “fire clouds” over the blaze — dangerous columns of smoke and ash that can reach up to 6 miles ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DENVER (KDVR) — Multiple fires are burning on the Western Slope, and a weather phenomenon known as fire clouds caused one of the ...

A: A pyrocumulus is a fire cloud. A pyrocumulus cloud forms from rising air that results from intense heating of the surface by phenomena such as wildfires or volcanic eruptions. The fires that ...

Photographer Jesse Rockwell was able to capture a stunning timelapse of a pyrocumulus cloud forming over the Rey Fire near Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday, August 20. According to the American ...

The wildfire that destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge earlier this month has expanded to more than 105,000 acres, fire officials in Arizona said Thursday. A timelapse video captured on Tuesday ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — Crews battling the sprawling Pine Gulch Fire were presented with another problem overnight Tuesday — a flurry of lightning, and not solely from a rain-producing thunderstorm.