Residents across Washington County are facing higher insurance premiums and coverage challenges after Utah released updated ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Close to 60,000 structures across Utah are considered at "high risk" for being impacted by wildfires, putting some homeowners on the path to pay new fees, according to a new state map ...

The high-risk wildland-urban interface map released Dec. 18 is a requirement from new state law House Bill 48. The law, and accompanying fee area, aim to ensure residents are protecting themselves and ...

Director of Utah Forestry, Fire and State Lands Jamie Barnes talks about House Bill 48 and how it will mitigate fire risk and ...

The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands unveiled the state’s new High-Risk Wildland Urban Interface map, a key component of House Bill 48 that was passed by the ...

The new law also requires the state to assess property fees within the high-risk wildland urban interface boundary to help ...

New legislation passed in 2025 mandated the creation of a plan to help Utahns living in high risk areas for wildfires.

Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they are spurring the formation of “fire clouds” ...