Top Wildfire Stories From SEJournal

Updated May 2026

TipSheets

• Wildfire Preparedness Is a Story Worth Telling — Before ‘Fire Season’ [2]
• Wildfire Smoke — Now a Local Story in Unaccustomed Places [3]
• How Much Longer Will Insurers Cover Wildfire Loss Near You? [4]
• Wildland-Urban Interface — How Disastrous Wildfires Get Into Your Neighborhood [5]
• Where There’s Smoke, There's ... a Health Threat [6]
• With Wildfire, When Is Climate Change the Spark? [7]
• Wildfire Season Comes Earlier, Bringing Broader Stories [8]

Toolboxes

• Hazard Duty — Government Data Portals Help Report Extreme Weather [9]
• Fire Sleuths Can Spark Story Ideas With Wildland Urban Interface Data Maps [10]
• Database Details Planetary Asset — Canada’s Forests [11]
• Top Data Sources Can Help Cover the Larger Wildfire Story [12]
• ‘Orange’ Is the New Data — for Wildfire Smoke [13]
• Air Quality Monitors — and Their Data — Now Easy To Find Via Online Map [14]
• Forest Service Offers Mapping Database on Potential Wildfire Hazards [15]
• Tracking Respiratory Health Risks From Wildfire Smoke [16]
• Start Tracking Wildfires Before Things Get Hot [17]

Backgrounder

• Wildfire Smoke Is Showing Up Everywhere. It Can Be Fatal [18]

Inside Story

• Reporters Expose Failed Systems After Hurricane Ian, Maui Fires [19]
• On the Front Lines, When Wildfires Turn Personal [20]

Feature

• Beyond the Fires and Floods — Comprehensively Covering Disasters [21]
• Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene [22]
• Covering Wildfire — Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks [23]
• Clearing the Smoke — Collaboration Exposes Impacts of Wildfire Pollution-Reporting Rules [24]

WatchDog

• Wildfire Disinformation Becomes a State Weapon, Aided by AI [25]

EJ InSight & More

• Can a City on Fire Be Photographed? Yes, Says One Photojournalist [26]
• U.S. Wildfire Response Badly Off-Base, New Doc Convincingly Shows [27]
• Walking With the ‘Guardians of the Forest’ — Lessons From Coverage of Amazonian Fires [28]
• F/8, N95 and Be There — Wildfire Photojournalism in the Pandemic Era [29]
• Forged in Fire — Author Follows the Flames, and Fights Them, To Cover the Changing Nature of Wildfires [30]

All Wildfire Stories From SEJournal [31]       All Wildfire Headlines From EJToday [32]

Return to Topics on the Beat main page [33]