california wildfires

Five years since the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in California’s history nearly erased the quiet community of Paradise, survivors are sharing their stories of recovery.

An evacuation order was issued Monday as firefighters battle a brush fire that started in the Aguanga area of Riverside County, not too far from Temecula.

Officials in the Northern California town of Paradise have begun installing and testing warning sirens to deploy in the event of another wildfire or other natural disaster. The sirens are nearly ready as the five-year anniversary of a fast-moving wildfire that killed 85 people and devastated the community approaches. Reliable warning systems are becoming more critical as increasingly destructive wildfires...

Two firefighters and a helicopter pilot are being remembered for their courage following a deadly mid-air collision with another firefighting aircraft as they responded to a Southern California brush fire.

The largest wildfire burning in California generated dangerous natural phenomena known as fire whirls as it grew to more than 77,000 acres on the state’s border with Nevada.

A brush fire that started during a Southern California heat wave grew to more than 2,300 acres over the weekend near the Cahuilla Indian Reservation in Riverside County.

The hot and dry months of summer bring an increased threat of fast-moving wildfires in California. See where fires are burning.

Wildfire smoke is part of life in California and the American West, but it’s an unfamiliar foe in New York City and other East Coast cities.

The state of California’s home insurance market has been rattled after major companies withdraw.

State Farm General on Friday announced that it will stop accepting new homeowners insurance applications in California.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom visited the Bay Area Thursday to highlight investments in wildfire prevention and how drought conditions are impacting the state’s fire season.

A new report by state scientists shows a grim picture of the escalating climate crisis in California. It shows that the effects of climate change, including wildfires, are increasingly taxing our environment and our health at a faster rate than anticipated. 

The California wildfire season this year is looking much different than the past several years.  

Firefighters attacking California’s largest wildfire of the year provided a striking view of the fire from a water-dropping helicopter during a night-time run.

California is moving to become the first state to lower insurance costs for property owners who make improvements to reduce their fire risk, the state’s insurance commissioner said as wildfires again flared across the heat-stricken state.

A raging California wildfire has displaced thousands of people in the small community of Weed about 50 miles south of the Oregon border. The flames raced from Roseburg Forest Products, which makes wood products, into the Lincoln Heights neighborhood where a significant number of homes burned and residents had to flee for their lives on Friday afternoon. The Mill Fire...

A geography professor at UC Riverside says aggressive wildfire-fighting tactics don’t allow wildfire fuels to burn like they once did, keeping the doors open for massive fires in the future

A brush fire is burning near the 5 Freeway north of Los Angeles on a day of extreme late-summer heat in Southern California.

Part of the 15 Freeway northeast of Los Angeles was closed Wednesday afternoon due to a fast-moving brush fire. 

One year after a wind-whipped wildfire charred a craggy mountainside above Lone Pine, California, signs of life are slowly returning.