After starting out slow, this year's fire season is quickly turning into one for the record books (again). Unfortunately, it's abou...

My friend Dave Touissant grabbed this graphic from MODIS imagery and tweeted it and here it is now on my blog. The extent and magnitud...

On August 14, 2019, I had lunch in San Luis Obispo with my 7th grade history teacher Mike Burrell. He was my favorite teacher at Atascade...

Photo by Kim Patrick Noyes (all rights reserved) Today I had lunch in San Luis Obispo with my junior high school history mentor Mike Bu...

Twenty-five years ago today the Highway 41 Fire began along the eastbound lane of Highway 41 between Atascadero and Morro Bay near Cerro Al...

Museum Fire outside Flagstaff, AZ, after sunset tonight. *Update: 1,927 acres at 12% containment but no growth. Photo courtesy of Jerem...

Today is the middle day in a three-day cluster of notable anniversaries of disasters or significant natural history events in California his...

Earlier this evening marked the 29th anniversary of the Painted Cave Fire in Santa Barbara County . Unusually powerful Sundowner winds ...

I still remember the Dude Fire and the epic heat wave in Arizona during the same period..... happened around the same time as the Painted ...

Image courtesy of NWS Phoenix Although there are some areal proportionality problems with this visual comparison it is nonetheless usef...

In one of the oddest fires I've seen this year, a small roadside grassfire along Highway 99 in Bakersfield, CA, spread from very meager ...

Last week Cal Fire, in cooperation with Paso Robles Fire Department and local residents living in canyon and hilltop homes on the West Sid...

In closing out my discussion of my unexpectedly exciting chase of the 1,764-acre McMillan Fire a few days ago, above is an aerial image ...

Upon awaking this morning and checking online, to my surprise my footage of the 1,764-acre McMillan Fire yesterday had spread across variou...

Tonight I was going to compile my best footage from yesterday's McMillan Fire near Shandon, CA, in eastern San Luis Obispo County. Befo...

Today while working at my house in Paso Robles , I espied a loom-up of smoke off to the east. I immediately stopped what I was doing and tur...

From the first day of the Spring Fire (yesterday) in Costilla County, Colorado , it has been an exceptionally photogenic and dramatic-loo...