Fire tornadoes (or firenadoes) form due to two key factors. One factor is the combustion process that creates fire and releases large amounts heat. This heat release creates an updraft.

These swirling columns of fire and ash look like tornadoes but they form differently from regular tornadoes that develop along the base of thunderstorms. Wildfires produce a lot of heat ...

A Feb. 21-22, 1971 outbreak claimed 121 lives from Texas to North Carolina, the deadliest February rash of tornadoes in ...

Video footage from Friday shows a rotating inferno surrounded by smoke in the Pacific Palisades fire that has devastated the LA area.

The tornadoes, which also injured three people and caused widespread damage, reached wind speeds in excess of 100 miles per ...

The United States recorded at least 1,855 tornadoes in 2024, surpassing the previous record of 1,814 set in 2004, according to preliminary data from the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction ...