This May 14 photo provided by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources shows a smoky wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that has consumed 8,700 acres, destroyed nearly 50 structures and forced dozens from their homes. The DNR says the wildfire in Douglas County is about 90 percent contained Wednesday morning, meaning firefighters have stopped most of the fire from spreading.

A structure burns along Sutfin Road east of Comminsky Road in Highland Township, Wis., east of Solon Springs, Wis., on May 14. Crews from Wisconsin and Minnesota were trying to control a rapidly growing wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that forced evacuations of the sparsely populated area. Several structures were destroyed in a mostly rural and wooded area east of Solon Springs as the forest fire grew to 9 square miles, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said. No injuries had been reported.

A rabbit runs from a wildfire burning along the Pacific Coast Highway near Point Mugu State Park in Ventura County, California, on May 3. Some 4,000 homes were threatened by a growing wildfire northwest of Los Angeles that has forced the closure of California's scenic coastal highway, firefighters said Friday.

A firefighter douses burned recreational vehicles after the Springs Fire burned through in the Camarillo Springs area of Ventura County, California. The wind-driven brush fire erupted beside a freeway northwest of Los Angeles on Thursday, prompting authorities to order the evacuation of hundreds of homes threatened as flames advanced on nearby subdivisions, a Ventura County fire official said.

Smoke and fire billows over a hill near Thousand Oaks, Calif. on Thursday. Authorities have ordered evacuations of a neighborhood and a university about 50 miles west of Los Angeles where a wildfire is raging close to subdivisions. The blaze on the fringes of Camarillo and Thousand Oaks broke out Thursday morning and was quickly spread by gusty Santa Ana winds. Evacuation orders include California State University, Channel Islands.

A resident watches as a wildfire approaches homes on May 2 in Newbury Park, California. Winds have made fighting the blaze, called the Springs Fire, more difficult and authorities have ordered some mandatory evacuations in the area.

An aerial view of the Taim Ecological Station on fire, in Rio Grande do Sul state, southern Brazil, on March 27, 2013.

A kangaroo crossing a road in Gippsland, Victoria, Australia, as it escapes from a bushfire. Several homes have been lost in a 25,000-hectare fire in Victoria's southeast.

A fire burns in the Ku-Ring-Gai National Park on Jan. 18, 2013.

People try to escape the heat by standing under a fire hose at Big Day Out music festival in Sydney on Jan. 18, 2013.

A bushfire burns near Seaton, east of Melbourne, on Jan. 18, 2013. Reports state that a bushfire burning mainly in forest country about 200km east of Melbourne is 'as bad as it gets' and could continue for days or even weeks.

Rural Fire Service volunteers battle spot fires threatening homes and heading towards the Newell Highway south of the town of Coonabarabran on Jan. 18, 2013. A large 40,000 hectare bush fire is burning in the Warrumbungle National Park. Fires have destroyed more than 40 homes in New South Wales.

A bushfire burns on Melbourne Street in Cessnock, about 75 miles north of Sydney, on Jan. 18, 2013.

Wearing protective clothing, a firefighter is almost surrounded by red hot flames as he protects a property affected by the Dean's Gully fire near the town of Wandandian south of Nowra, New South Wales on Jan. 8. No properties, apart from some farm sheds, have been lost in the Dean's Gully fire, which continues to burn out of control. New South Wales has been declared a total fire ban with the Illawarra, Shoalhaven and Southern Highlands placed under 'catastrophic fire conditions,' the highest fire danger level.

A kangaroo hops through a burnt-out paddock after a grassfire in Sunbury, north of Melbourne, Victoria on Jan. 8. The fire has been contained.

A sky crane water bombing helicopter flies through thick smoke over the town of Wandandian south of Nowra, on Jan. 8.

Firefighters continue to hose around a tree that survived a grass fire in Oura, near Wagga Wagga in New South Wales, on Jan. 8.

Alison Palmer, right, and her eleven-year-old son Zac at her parents' house, which was destroyed after bushfires swept through the region at Boomer Bay on the Tasman Peninsula in Tasmania, on Jan. 8. Residents on a southern Tasmanian peninsula have been urged to seek refuge ahead of a renewed bushfire threat across the region.

Evelyn Krug looks over the smoldering remains of her home in Bucyrus, N.D., on Oct. 18, 2012. Krug, 74, and her husband, Mike, raised their children in the home on the west side of Bucyrus. In the background is Krug's car that was completely burned where it was parked in the fast moving fire.

A fire sweeps through Bucyrus, N.D. on Oct. 17, 2012.

A firefighting helicopter fills a bucket of water in heavy smoke as the North Merna wildfire burns in the Bridger National Forest west of the town of Pinedale, Wyo., Sept. 16.

Ranchers and hunters make their away from the North Merna wildfire in the Bridger National Forest.

A plane flies as smoke billows from the North Merna wildfire in the Bridger National Forest west of the town of Pinedale in Sublette County, Wyo., Sept. 16.

A firefighter screams as a forest fire grows behind him in an area close to the house of former painter Oswaldo Guayasamin in Quito, Ecuador on September 12, 2012.

Smoke from a fire billows in a forest in the metropolitan district of Quito on September 12, 2012.

A Los Angeles County Firefighter helicopter drops water on a wildfire burning through 3,600 acres of the Angeles National Forest on Tuesday Sept. 4, 2012 near Glendora, Calif.

A firefighting air tanker flies over flames at the Williams fire in the Angeles National Forest on Tuesday.

Firefighters find themselves in a life-threatening situation as they use hoses to fight a forest fire in Quinta da Sobreira, central Portugal, on Sept. 4.

Firefighters combat a forest fire in Quinta da Sobreira, central Portugal, on Sept. 4.

Smoke from a forest fire fills the air in Alvaiazere, near Ourem, Portugal, on Sept. 4.

Firefighters combat a forest fire in Alvaiazere, near Ourem, Portugal, Sept. 4.