This activity links to an interactive article on wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington state, and includes 15 reading comprehension questions that accompany the article. In this current events, science, or reading comprehension lesson, students read about wildfires in the West. The article is structured as a story map and involves reading, maps, and graphs to analyze. The article and questions cover themes such as: benefits of fire to the ecosystem, history of fire suppression, present