Wildfires

Calling Bull On Forest Service And Timber Industry Propaganda

May 16, 2026 Mike Garrity, Counter Punch. Create! Forests, Logging, Lumber, Wildfires

If you’re wondering why the Alliance for the Wild Rockies wins 80% of its lawsuits against Forest Service logging projects, the answer is simple: It’s because the agency repeatedly breaks the laws that govern management of our forest ecosystems and the fish and wildlife that depend on them. Rather than follow the law, however, the Forest Service and timber industry fund scientists and corporate research groups to falsely claim that environmentalists are to blame for wildfires. It’s the same tactic the tobacco and fossil fuels industries used to find a few scientists to claim smoking doesn’t cause cancer and global warming doesn’t exist.

Paradise, California Hosts A Gathering On Community Resilience

May 13, 2026 Bob Stilger, Resilience. Organize! California, climate crisis, Disaster Recovery, Extreme weather, Wildfires

Wildfires have already burned nearly two million acres in the U.S. this year — far exceeding the ten-year May average — and conditions are only expected to get hotter and drier. Of course, wildfires are only one of many challenges we now face. Last year, I heard the term “confluence of catastrophes,” which I’ve come to appreciate much more than “polycrisis.” Polycrisis suggests to me problems running in parallel, while confluence evokes forces flowing together — into us, through us, from us. How do we live, now, in our confluence of catastrophes?

Chile Engulfed In Plantation And Climate-Fueled Mega-Fires

January 21, 2026 Anne Petermann and Orin Langelle, Global Justice Equality Project. Educate! Chile, climate crisis, GE Trees, Indigenous Resistance, Monocrops, Wildfires

Chile is once again engulfed in catastrophic wildfires. Fueled by extreme heat, prolonged drought, and high winds, fires tearing through the central and southern Ñuble and Bío Bío, regions have killed at least 19 people, forced mass evacuations, and destroyed hundreds of homes. Authorities have declared states of emergency as firefighters and community brigades struggle to contain blazes advancing with terrifying speed. These fires the predictable outcome of climate change layered onto a highly flammable landscape engineered by decades of political and economic decisions—decisions rooted in dictatorship, neoliberalism, and the violent dispossession of Indigenous Mapuche communities.

Wildfire ‘Apocalypse’ In Türkiye; Temperature Rises To Record 122.9º F

July 30, 2025 Juan Cole, Informed Consent. Educate! climate crisis, Global heating, Türkiye, Wildfires

Türkiye is facing “apocalyptic” wildfires according to one official in the northwest Bursa region. Temperatures in central Anatolia hit an unusual 108.32º F [42.4º C.]. But the record-breaking temperature was recorded in the southeastern town of Silopi — of 122.9º F. [50.5º C.] — in the largely Kurdish Şırnak province. Although the very highest temperatures were elsewhere, it was so hot and dry in northwestern Turkey south of Istanbul that massive fires broke out at Bursa and elsewhere in that region, causing thousands of people to flee their homes.

As Fires Consumed California, Small Towns Organized Their Own Defense

July 14, 2025 Margaret Elysia Garcia, Truthout. Organize! California, Communities, Extreme weather, Mutual Aid, Public safety, Wildfires

If you live in a national forest in California, odds are pretty high that at some point or another you’ve been ordered to evacuate. In Indian Valley, for the first twelve days, many of our residents did indeed evacuate, but a significant number stayed behind. Some residents had livestock to look after and often no solid indication of where they could take their animals that wouldn’t also need to be evacuated soon. With so many towns evacuating at once, some didn’t want to stay in evacuation shelters where the lights would be on all day and night and the likelihood of catching COVID was high.

Bee Hotels Can Help Native Pollinators Recover In The Wake Of Wildfires

June 30, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Create! Bees, climate crisis, Pollinators, Wildfires

Wild pollinator populations are declining all over the world, with increasingly severe climate change-fueled wildfires threatening their survival. These intense wildfires are also putting long-term ecosystem health and biodiversity at risk. Bee hotels are artificial nesting structures that have been specially designed to house cavity-nesting species. Often placed in backyards or gardens, they provide safe havens and nurseries for essential pollinators. New research led by conservationist Dr. Kit Prendergast, a native bee scientist with University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ), has found that bee hotels can play an essential role in helping native bee populations recover from wildfires.

Rebuilding Altadena With Catalog Homes And Collective Action

June 24, 2025 Corinne Ruff, Next City. Create! Disaster Recovery, Housing, Los Angeles, Wildfires

After News Year’s, Nitti Kaur rounded up a room full of furniture and clothing to donate. “That was on my to-do list for January,” she says. “And the tables turned so fast.” On Jan. 7, Kaur and her partner Mac Perry watched his childhood home in Altadena burn, room by room, in the Eaton Fire. Soon after, Kaur found herself standing frozen at a donation center looking for clothing. “Somebody came and hugged me from the back,” says Kaur, who runs a real estate advisory firm for investors called A360 Capital. “They were like, ‘We’ll take care of you. Don’t worry. We’re all in this together.’ And something in me clicked in that very moment – we’re called City of Angels, and I was seeing angels and actions that just inspired me.”

Why Hasn’t California Enforced Its Post-Wildfire Rent Gouging Ban?

May 26, 2025 Roshan Abraham, Next City. Resist! California, Disaster Recovery, Housing, Los Angeles, Rent control, renter's rights, Wildfires

As wildfires raged through Los Angeles early this year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency. The Jan. 7 declaration also triggered a state law enacting price controls on consumer goods in Los Angeles County for 30 days, which have since been extended to July 1. The law, meant to protect displaced Angelenos against price gouging and disaster profiteering, also regulates rental housing costs. This means landlords can’t legally raise rents by more than 10% either for current tenants or for prospective tenants if the unit was advertised in the past year, and can charge no more than 160% of the fair market rent for units that had not been rented or offered for rent in the past year.

Order To Expand Logging Threatens To Increase Climate-Fueled Wildfires

May 19, 2025 Curtis Johnson, Truthout. Educate! climate crisis, Donald Trump, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Logging, Wildfires

On March 1, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.” The order claimed “onerous Federal policies” have hindered domestic timber production and that expanding logging was a matter of protecting “national and economic security.” It ordered the secretary of the Interior and head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), who oversee the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) respectively, to develop a plan to expand timber targets and streamline permitting “to suspend, revise, or rescind all existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, settlements, consent orders, and other agency actions that impose an undue burden on timber production.”

These Black Architects Are Helping Rebuild Altadena After The LA Wildfires

April 24, 2025 Corinne Ruff, Next City. Create! Architecture, Black America, California, Community, Disaster Recovery, Los Angeles, Wildfires

Carla Flagg remembers the joy of growing up in west Altadena. “We had these great pool parties where all the cousins and everybody would come to the Fair Oaks house,” she says, smiling, as tears welled up in her eyes. Her parents owned the house and passed it down to her sister and her sister’s kids. “ We had that home for 50-some odd years, and there are still people who know the original phone number.” Flagg’s family home was one of some 9,400 structures that were destroyed in the Eaton Fire in January. It was also one of many homes passed down within the Black community by family members. Discriminatory redlining of the 1960s steered her parents away from Pasadena, and realtors encouraged them to purchase on the west side of Altadena.

The Rise Of Community Land Trusts In Hawai‘I

March 30, 2025 Noelle Fujii-Oride, Next City. Create! Affordable Housing, community land trusts, Hawaii, Land trusts, Wildfires

On Aug. 8, 2024, a new milestone was reached in the aftermath of the deadly Lahaina wildfire that destroyed 2,200 structures and displaced 12,000 residents on the island of Maui: A Lahaina nonprofit secured its first residential parcel for community ownership. 1651 Lokia Street, which once held a four-bed, three-bath house, sits empty. But one day, the property will accommodate a new main house and two accessory dwelling units — known locally as ‘ohana units — providing a stable, affordable home for an extended or multigenerational family.

A Land Bank Is Buying Property To Protect Altadena From Displacement

March 29, 2025 Eliana Perozo, Next City. Resist! Affordable Housing, Altadena, Privatization, Wildfires

On the evening of Jan. 7, the Eaton fire hit Altadena, destroying over 10,000 commercial and residential homes and displacing thousands of families. Just a little over two months later, and this historically Black community is facing a new threat. Shortly after the fire, a private developer paid $550,000 in cash for the first vacant lot left behind from the wildfires, about $100,000 above asking price. In the days since, at least 13 more properties have sold, at least half of them by offshore private developers. But community leaders are working to beat back the tide. Earlier this month, a Pasadena-based housing justice nonprofit purchased a burned lot in the neighborhood, marking the first Altadena property that has been removed from the market and protected in a community land bank.

Public Banking In A Time Of Climate Crisis

February 15, 2025 Trinity Tran, Consortium News. Create! climate crisis, Disaster Recovery, Public Banks, Wildfires

On the night of Jan. 7, as the Palisades Fire surged to 2,000 acres to the west and the Eaton Fire exploded to 1,000 to the east, I joined thousands fleeing hurricane-force winds that hurled embers for miles. I evacuated out of precaution, but across Los Angeles, many Angelenos were not as fortunate. Like so many here, I spent those first sleepless nights glued to wall-to-wall news coverage, tracking the fires’ paths. But while flames dominated headlines, a slower crisis burns, one that Los Angeles has yet to confront. Caught in a cycle of destruction and recovery that grows more urgent every year, fire season is no longer a season — it’s a year-round threat.

Fast Fashion Is Haunting L.A.’s Wildfire Relief Efforts

February 1, 2025 Maylin Tu, Next City. Educate! California, Disaster Recovery, Fashion Industry, Los Angeles, Recycling, Wildfires

The Sunday after the wildfires hit L.A. County, I found myself sorting through piles of clothing with other volunteers outside of L.A. Climate Week’s host, the nonprofit Collidescope Foundation. Even as we packed dozens of 13-gallon trash bags with items sorted by gender, age and type, mountains of more donations were stacked floor to ceiling inside. In a crisis, Los Angeles residents like Halle Berry packed up their dresses, sweaters, jeans, jackets and more for wildfire victims. It’s a heartwarming gesture, but donation hubs ended up with more used clothing than they could realistically pass on to wildfire survivors.

How Federal Disaster Funding Can Slow Rent Increases

January 20, 2025 Robert Davis, Next City. Educate! Affordable Housing, Disaster Recovery, Extreme weather, Flooding, Housing, Housing Crisis, Rent, Wildfires

Coloradans often welcome rain storms with the refrain, “We need the moisture.” After the deadly floods in September 2013, many Coloradans sang a different tune. Over five days, a slow-moving storm covered some areas of the Front Range with up to 20 inches of rain. Overall, the floods killed 10 people, displaced 18,000, and caused more than $4 billion in damage to more than 17,000 structures, of which 1,882 were completely destroyed, according to the Colorado Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management’s after-action report.

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