A wildfire's destruction creates a surge of demand for services and rebuilding.

Bastrop County, in the dry piney woods, not only is rebuilding, it's growing.

Hardester's Market is one of few places open in Middletown, California.

The experiment could be a model for managing disasters with limited resources.

Reclassifying blazes as natural disasters would help fund strapped Forest Service.

And this final note on supply and demand: Of Knishes.

To help fight wildfires, officials often dump orange fire retardant from planes. But some Forest Service employees argue the substance doesn't work as promised.

The Nest Protect costs four times as much as a normal smoke detector.

The 200-square-mile Rim Fire peels back the layers of the Sierra Nevadas’ economic ecology.

As the Rim Fire in California continues to spread from Yosemite National Park, thousands of homes are threatened. In many areas in the West, insurance pools make it possible to build housing in high-risk fire zones.