Southeastern Colorado residents were ordered to evacuate Sunday afternoon as the rapidly growing Sharpe fire in Oklahoma spread across the state line, according to emergency officials.

According to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), the fire was more accurately mapped at 12.2 acres.

Mandatory evacuations were lifted Sunday for a town along Colorado's southern border as a fast-moving wildfire crossed over the state line from Oklahoma.

Starting this year, Colorado is the first Western state after California with a statewide, mandatory building code for structures in the wildland-urban interface, where communities encroach on ...

A hidden fire that has been burning underground near Meeker since the 1930s is now hot enough that state crews are racing to stop it from sparking a wildfire above ground.