Photograph by Mark Thiessen, National Geographic Before and after ... and litter from a forest, depriving an otherwise raging wildfire of fuel. While wildfires are a natural part of many ...

As thousands of people are forced to evacuate and many lose homes to the flames, wildlife is also facing deadly consequences.

This story appears in the May 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine ... turn to leap out of a plane to fight a backcountry forest fire. A Fire Boss plane dumps water to aid a ground crew ...

Firefighters talk about fire like it’s alive, says Mark Thiessen, staff photographer at National Geographic. “I could see how they feel that way, because of the way it moves and its ferocity ...

National Geographic photographer Keith Ladzinski focused on the positive when it came to forest fires: the solutions people are working on.

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Their thick bark is flame resistant. Ground fires, in fact, are good for sequoia populations, burning away ...

This story appears in the January 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... The plane clawed through the haze of forest fires around the Brazilian frontier town of Tucumã.

This story appears in the April 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine ... To start with, we’ve spent the past century eliminating forest fires—thereby turning the woods into beetle ...