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

A rush to fix Canada's housing shortage may placing some new homes at risk of damage by flood and fire, says a new report ...

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

The Tunnel fire broke out in a wooded canyon just minutes away from UC Berkeley, where David Sapsis was working on his Ph.D.

The governor called on the state Board of Forestry to enact regulations they were ordered to draft four years ago.

Newsom signed the order after returning from Washington, D.C., where he met with President Trump to discuss federal aid.

Gov. Gavin Newsom will order state officials to advance the implementation of a state rule aiming to make homes more ...

CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the ...