In this month’s Weather Experiment Wednesday, Director of Education Chip Lindsey at Discovery Lab demonstrates for us a fire tornado made in a contained space. This is not something that should be ...

Tucked beneath snow-capped mountains in Missoula, Montana, there's a laboratory unlike any other in the country, where scientists are starting fires to better understand how they burn and how to ...

The Deer Creek Fire in Utah began on July 10. The fire has grown to over 11,000 acres as of July 14 with 7% containment. The cause is unknown at this time. A large vortex or "firenado" formed over the ...

A fire vortex, formed from intense heat of combined fires and turbulent winds, spread in Deer Creek in San Juan County, Utah on July 12. The firenado formed from the massive Deer Creek fire that by ...

A fire tornado, also known as a fire whirl, appeared in Brentwood, California, on Jan. 13 during the Palisades fires. A firenado is a whirl of fire and ash caused by intense heat and turbulent wind ...