Evacuating the Tahoe basin in summer could take 14 hours, and 99% of properties are at risk — yet new resorts are being built ...

The Caldor Fire sparked in August 2021, racing through the Foothills and into the Sierra, forcing a historic evacuation of South Lake Tahoe, which has not needed to evacuate from a fire since 2007.

Authors of a fire modeling study focused on one of the few remaining old-growth forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin are pointing ...

That glimpse into Tahoe’s fiery future was repeated in August 2021, when the Caldor Fire burned for longer than two months and incinerated more than 1,000 structures, including a ski resort.

Strong winds that drove the Caldor Fire east through high elevations of the Sierra Nevada for days had faded after forcing thousands of people to flee, but very localized gusts were likely and the ...

Walt Tyler Elementary School in Grizzly Flats burned to the ground today in the Caldor fire that is blazing through El Dorado County, reports the Sacramento Bee. The school, which is part of the ...

Although it’s been over three years since residents endured the Caldor Fire, there are ever present reminders of the event that was also wind driven and fed by a fuel bed primed from an extended ...