In some areas, hazards have surged. Buildings in the highest hazard zones will be subject to the strictest fire-resiliency ...

The number of California acres mapped into higher "fire hazard severity zones" is doubling. Stricter fire safety building ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...

The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...

The risk of catastrophic wildfires is increasing. Rising global temperatures, changing precipitation and wind patterns, and ...

Lewis County Fire District 5 firefighters in Napavine have had plenty of experience responding to wildfires across the county ...

Experts say wildfires in California are becoming closer and closer to a year-round threat and as the fire season lengthens, ...

Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,706.6 acres after being active for ...

The Inland Empire and Orange County had received less than a half-inch of rain through mid-January, and that total was ...

Containment measures the percentage of a fire's perimeter that firefighters have under control. Parts of the fire's interior ...

California utility company Southern California Edison on Thursday said its equipment “may be associated with” the ignition of ...

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire proposed that state firefighters work full time in place of the seasonal workforce the ...