GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - Wildfire risk increases due to lightning and gusty winds from thunderstorms.

Amid a rough wildfire season, Gov. Jared Polis has declared a disaster emergency for the Crosho Fire in Rio Blanco and Routt ...

At least 15 fires have burned more than 198,000 acres across Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Grand, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose, and Rio Blanco counties, as well as in parts of eastern Utah.

Together, five wildfires burning on Colorado’s Western Slope have consumed hundreds of square miles, destroying at least five ...

The Crosho Fire, west of Phippsburg and Yampa, spread to over 1,700 acres, according to a Wednesday afternoon update from Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue. The fire more than tripled in size since ...

The Meeker Volunteer Fire Department was the first agency to respond to a wildfire that grew into one of the largest in state ...

Information will be updated as it becomes available: Crosho Fire Update: Routt County road closures as of 7:30 p.m. on ...

Hard to fathom that Colorado can consider itself lucky to have so many firefighting resources at its disposal when the devastation is so profound.

Five active wildfires — the Lee, Elk, Oak, Stoner Mesa and Crosho fires — have charred more than 143,000 acres, or 222 square ...

RIO BLANCO COUNTY, Colo. — The Lee Fire burning in Rio Blanco County has grown to more than 120,650 acres in just over a week, making it Colorado's fifth-largest wildfire on record.

Two homes and two outbuildings have been destroyed in the Elk Fire, according to officials in Rio Blanco County. One of those ...

Regarding the Elk Fire, crews are continuing to reinforce containment lines off of County Road 8 and in the Beaver Creek area ...