Fire spotters used to watch with binoculars from forest towers. Now, technology can help forecast fire behavior, but human ...

Californians live in the wildland-urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

In the aftermath of catastrophic fires in Los Angeles, residents in Marin are expressing rising concerns about new housing construction planned in high fire zones. Save Dominican Valley, a group of ...

A vegetation fire was threatening a structure in California Valley after it broke out on Wednesday afternoon. The fire was ...

The wildfire risk in Nelson has been completely assessed, says the city’s fire chief. Jeff Hebert said the wildfire risk reduction program — which falls under the FireSmart umbrella — has had Nelson ...

Funded in 2021, the Watch Duty wildfire alert application has grown from covering three California counties to covering 1,400 ...

With increasingly hot weather and topographical features that resemble those in parts of Southern California, the booming ...

Oregon property owners who are receiving notices from the state that their property is in a zone with high wildfire risk and in a ...

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

Amid the aftermath of devastation, Peter Matthews urges conversations about construction in rural/rugged environments, defensible space, noncombustible building materials and ...

Large wildfires in the desert were once rare. Now experts worry that invasive plants and a changing fire cycle are putting ...