A New Jersey forest fire likely started by an illegal, unattended campfire had spread to at least 13,500 acres by Tuesday — and is threatening to be the Garden State’s biggest wildfire in 15 ...

New Jersey faces biggest wildfire in 20 years as more than 11,000 acres burn. Here’s what we know - In an average year, approximately 7,000 acres of New Jersey's forests are consumed by fire.

New Jersey fire officials are preparing for what could be a very active wildfire season. After an especially busy fall last year, the fire risk across the state has once again been elevated to "high." ...

Overall, New Jersey's forest fire service reported about 10 separate wildfires in different parts of the state over the past week, including one in Englewood Cliffs, across the Hudson River from ...

Smoke from wildfires burning in Canada has caused air quality alerts to be issued in parts of New Jersey and New York on ...

The fire is one of the several burning on the East Coast but New Jersey has borne the brunt of it. Called the Jennings Creek Wildfire by New Jersey Forest Fire Service the grew to 3,500 acres and ...

A wildfire consuming a vast stretch of hilly forest along the New York-New Jersey border continued to grow on Monday despite the first significant rainfall in nearly six weeks, fire officials said ...

The wildfire in Ocean County, New Jersey started on Tuesday and now covers more than 15,000 acres. It's one of the biggest in New Jersey in the last few decades.

Wildfire in Central New Jersey Burns 3,800 Acres The blaze, about 50 miles east of Philadelphia in Manchester Township, was 50 percent contained. It had 200-foot flames at one point.

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection’s Forest Fire Service said Saturday afternoon that the fire in the Pompton Lakes area of Passaic County had been 50% contained.