An additional 12,000 people in northwest Alberta have been placed on evacuation alert as an out-of-control wildfire in the area grows.

A five-acre fire destroyed one home in Haines and spread to State Forest land Monday night. The National Forest Service is flying in Tuesday evening to aid the local volunteer fire department.

Weather conditions continue to challenge firefighters battling the gigantic Chuckegg Creek blaze a few kilometres southwest of High Level, Alberta.

An out-of-control wildfire burning near a town in northwestern Alberta is at the highest possible danger and expected to increase this week.

Cries to urgently call state of emergency in Irkutsk region as it chokes in smoke.

Federal fire bosses are plotting a strategy to battle an unusually large early season wildland fire once it leaves military lands.

The Alaska Division of Forestry is warning Alaskans in the Southcentral region of the state about high fire danger.

A fire chief in the south-west said firefighters were called to several fires a day in recent days, saying that all were caused by people who ignored warnings.

Spring blossoms, dusty streets, distant fires and a lack of rain combine to create hazardous respiratory conditions.

The wind is causing trouble in some of the areas affected by wildfires and now more people are having to evacuate their homes.

Gallery | The fires, which were swept in from Mongolia by high winds, have caused almost $9.4 million in damage.

The cost of the recent fires has been revealed as Vladimir Putin today visited TransBaikal to assess the damage en route to a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un in Vladivostok

At least 90 left homeless in one village after raging infernos, say reports.

The warmest springtime temperature of the year so far is 14.1 degrees Celsius, and fires are popping up around the country.

Firefighters were battling a blaze in Alexandra, City of Johannesburg emergency services said on Tuesday.

Wildfires ablaze early in year due to lack of snow, posing threat to railway in Russian Far East.

Australia’s heat waves, now an annual ordeal, have been expanding into new territory — like Tasmania, where more than 50 wildfires were burning as of Friday.

'These fires can then pop back up in the spring when conditions warm up,' says the environment department. A local crew will likely extinguish the fires by Monday.

Mills in the heart of Canada's timber industry have fallen quieter this winter as wildfires and infestations made worse by climate change have made vast tracts of once valuable forest into barren stands of dead trees.