wildfires

Rain over over the last week "won’t make up" for the "severe drought in the U.P.,” MDNR's incident commander said.

Firefighters are working to contain two wildfires in Michigan's Upper Peninsula totaling near 600 acres, one of which has forced several evacuations.

“Fire is like nothing else in the world. ... It’s something that can breathe, it can move across the landscape, it can transform things and rejuvenate things."

Michigan has always had dry spells, but they have become longer and more severe. Climate scientists believe Michigan fires may soon resemble the fires that happen annually out west.

Michigan House Speaker Matt Hall says data center regulations could be among the policies Michigan lawmakers take up when they come back from their summer break.

The Ann Arbor Art Fair is underway this week even as the city experiences hazardous air quality from wildfire smoke.

According to the alert, shifting winds are set to bring smoke from wildfires in Canada and Minnesota into the Great Lakes region.

The state Department of Natural Resources has big concerns about the northern Lower Peninsula because a huge number of trees and tree limbs downed in the March 2025 ice storm have now dried out.

A 124-acre wildfire in the Huron-Manistee National Forest was 80% contained.

Many of the nation's overgrown forests are at high risk of burning. Under the Trump administration, work to reduce flammable vegetation fell by more than a million acres compared to previous years.