Substantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather phenomena wildfires can create include pyrocumulus clouds, fire tornadoes and smoke clouds that cause ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pyrocumulus cloud from the Station fire looms over downtown Los Angeles in August 2009. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times) The ...

The huge, billowing blackish-gray cloud, also known as a fire cloud or Flammagenitus cloud stretched up almost 30,000 feet high, although they usually only get to about 5.0 miles (26,000 feet). And ...

Aerial footage shows a towering smoke cloud rising above the Aspen Acres Fire in Colorado. The video, filmed from an aircraft ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 formation of "fire clouds" ...

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 ...

The KNP Complex fire burning in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks spurred new evacuations Monday as it formed a massive pyrocumulus cloud and made a leap toward dozens of historic cabins near ...

The first full weekend of September, with the Line fire 20,000 acres in size and only 3% contained, a resident of San Bernardino County described the sky as looking “exactly like a nuclear warhead had ...