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

Given the events in Southern California earlier this month it is difficult to pick any other topic to discuss. The Eaton Fire ...

In a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, with more than 16,000 homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by two fires in the Los Angeles area.

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland-urban interface. And when fires sweep through ...

No jurisdiction can afford the water system and fire department resources necessary to stop an urban conflagration.” Parsons said that fighting an urban conflagration — an uncontrollable fire ...

“I do believe, when we start to complete some research synopsis of this fire event,” Sapsis said, “that we’re going to be looking at a recalibration for what urban conflagration distances ...