I walked into Helgen and saw bright glowing orange wood pieces everywhere where there was a destroyed wooden structure (included broken fences, bits of the collapsed floors, sunken rooves etc.). I noticed this outside of Whiterun as well near the Western Watchtower everytime I walk by it after the dragon incident (the broken fence nearby was glowing brightly).

Is this happening to anyone else? or am I the only one to have this happen?

Edit: I'm on console so I don't use mods

Helgen is still burning after Alduin destroyed it.

Or was your question about something else (orange instead of smouldering wood)?
If so this could have been introduced by patch 1.4 there's a video on youtube about it.

Isn't that a known bug with the high-res pack? There should be a fix mod around somewhere...

The wood debris isn't burning, it's just extremely bright orange and it might've meant to be smouldering wood, IDK. It's exactly like this as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPVbtQf5x0Q

Did you not read the part where I said that I was ON CONSOLE?

Aliens.

How about posting this in the correct forum for starters?

I was reading another forum about building mods, specifically a custom tavern. People posted pics of their progress, but one had an issue with the fire in the hearth. His logs glowed orange, unlike the normal ones. Turned out he was using the hires pack.

Intredasting.... but I'm on console, so how could this have happened if I can't install mods or the hi-res pack? The only thing I did was patch this thing to 1.4, and all of a sudden I have weird alien logs appearing on my turf lol

Happened to me just now

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1296/skyrimorangeglow.jpg

I'm on console as well and this is happening to me regularly.