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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Dragon Bravo Fire — now the largest wildfire in the continental United States in 2025 — has surpassed 111,000 acres, ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they’re spurring the ...

Towering ‘fire clouds’ are turning wildfires into their own weather systems, making an already brutal battle even harder for crews on the ground. These towering pyrocumulus clouds, formed when ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - On Friday, the Lee Fire created a weather phenomenon called a pyrocumulus cloud. Pyrocumulus clouds can make fighting fires like the Lee Fire extremely dangerous and ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DENVER (KDVR) — Multiple fires are burning ...

Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they are spurring the formation of “fire clouds” ...

Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they are spurring the formation of “fire clouds” ...