Top Wildfire Stories From SEJournal
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Updated May 2026
TipSheets
- Wildfire Preparedness Is a Story Worth Telling — Before ‘Fire Season’
- Wildfire Smoke — Now a Local Story in Unaccustomed Places
- How Much Longer Will Insurers Cover Wildfire Loss Near You?
- Wildland-Urban Interface — How Disastrous Wildfires Get Into Your Neighborhood
- Where There’s Smoke, There's ... a Health Threat
- With Wildfire, When Is Climate Change the Spark?
- Wildfire Season Comes Earlier, Bringing Broader Stories
Toolboxes
- Hazard Duty — Government Data Portals Help Report Extreme Weather
- Fire Sleuths Can Spark Story Ideas With Wildland Urban Interface Data Maps
- Database Details Planetary Asset — Canada’s Forests
- Top Data Sources Can Help Cover the Larger Wildfire Story
- ‘Orange’ Is the New Data — for Wildfire Smoke
- Air Quality Monitors — and Their Data — Now Easy To Find Via Online Map
- Forest Service Offers Mapping Database on Potential Wildfire Hazards
- Tracking Respiratory Health Risks From Wildfire Smoke
- Start Tracking Wildfires Before Things Get Hot
Backgrounder
Inside Story
- Reporters Expose Failed Systems After Hurricane Ian, Maui Fires
- On the Front Lines, When Wildfires Turn Personal
Feature
- Beyond the Fires and Floods — Comprehensively Covering Disasters
- Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene
- Covering Wildfire — Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks
- Clearing the Smoke — Collaboration Exposes Impacts of Wildfire Pollution-Reporting Rules
WatchDog
EJ InSight & More
- Can a City on Fire Be Photographed? Yes, Says One Photojournalist
- U.S. Wildfire Response Badly Off-Base, New Doc Convincingly Shows
- Walking With the ‘Guardians of the Forest’ — Lessons From Coverage of Amazonian Fires
- F/8, N95 and Be There — Wildfire Photojournalism in the Pandemic Era
- Forged in Fire — Author Follows the Flames, and Fights Them, To Cover the Changing Nature of Wildfires
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