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

Evacuation orders and warnings are going into effect Thursday morning for the Los Angeles area burn zones as the strongest ...

Cal Fire released updated fire hazard maps for dozens of cities and towns in inland Northern California. All but one saw an ...

Parts of the Southern California coastal community of Rancho Palos Verdes were shifting 4 inches closer to the ocean each week in mid-to-late 2024, NASA found.

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 ...

Tucson isn’t Los Angeles, and the patchy saguaro scrubland of the Sonoran Desert isn’t the combustible coastal chaparral of Southern California. But the Old Pueblo does face a growing wildfire ...

California boasts the second-highest number of growing wealthy suburbs in the nation. The Golden State’s five fastest-growing suburbs for wealth are Dublin, Eastvale, San Ramon, El Dorado Hills ...

Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna said earlier he expected the number to grow. Wildfires have now scorched more than 39,000 acres of land in Southern California. “It looks like an atomic ...

Photo by Jules Hotz for CalMatters The wildfires still burning in Southern ... California land. But more than 80% of all structures destroyed by a wildfire between 1985 and 2013 were in these zones.

The Palisades, Eaton and Hurst wildfires in Southern California have destroyed more than 12,000 structures, raising the likelihood of a spike in demand for lumber in the months and years ahead.

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.