Top Wildfire Stories From SEJournal

Updated August 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

• Wildfire Data, With Its Hair on Fire [9]
• Hazard Duty — Government Data Portals Help Report Extreme Weather [10]
• Fire Sleuths Can Spark Story Ideas With Wildland Urban Interface Data Maps [11]
• Database Details Planetary Asset — Canada’s Forests [12]
• Top Data Sources Can Help Cover the Larger Wildfire Story [13]
• ‘Orange’ Is the New Data — for Wildfire Smoke [14]
• Air Quality Monitors — and Their Data — Now Easy To Find Via Online Map [15]
• Forest Service Offers Mapping Database on Potential Wildfire Hazards [16]
• Tracking Respiratory Health Risks From Wildfire Smoke [17]
• Start Tracking Wildfires Before Things Get Hot [18]

Backgrounder

• Wildfire Smoke Is Showing Up Everywhere. It Can Be Fatal [19]

Inside Story

• Reporters Expose Failed Systems After Hurricane Ian, Maui Fires [20]
• On the Front Lines, When Wildfires Turn Personal [21]

Feature

• Beyond the Fires and Floods — Comprehensively Covering Disasters [22]
• Rethinking Forest Management in the Pyrocene [23]
• Covering Wildfire — Expert Advice on Emerging Issues, Recurring Risks [24]
• Clearing the Smoke — Collaboration Exposes Impacts of Wildfire Pollution-Reporting Rules [25]

WatchDog

• Wildfire Disinformation Becomes a State Weapon, Aided by AI [26]

EJ InSight & More

• Can a City on Fire Be Photographed? Yes, Says One Photojournalist [27]
• U.S. Wildfire Response Badly Off-Base, New Doc Convincingly Shows [28]
• Walking With the ‘Guardians of the Forest’ — Lessons From Coverage of Amazonian Fires [29]
• F/8, N95 and Be There — Wildfire Photojournalism in the Pandemic Era [30]
• Forged in Fire — Author Follows the Flames, and Fights Them, To Cover the Changing Nature of Wildfires [31]

All Wildfire Stories From SEJournal [32]       All Wildfire Headlines From EJToday [33]

Return to Topics on the Beat main page [34]