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

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

And, despite the maps becoming Californians’ go-to source for hazard information, Cal Fire stresses its directive from lawmakers was to determine where officials need to enforce often costly ...

The new maps are expected to expand the roughly 800,000 acres currently in local fire jurisdictions zoned as “very high” by an additional 247,000 acres. Some 1.16 million acres will be categor ...

A new prescribed burn, named Trd Piles Wcsl, was initiated 1:06 p.m. Jan. 22 in Orange County. The prescribed fire has been burning on private land for 17 days. At present, information regarding ...

Orange Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the Bureau of Land Management for 33 hours. There is no update on the containment of the fire and its cause remains undetermined.

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 city unmarked. Entire blocks of homes in Altadena were destroyed ...

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

Wildfire smoke from the Palisades and Eaton fires blankets Los Angeles County. Four wildfires released towering plumes of smoke and soot, some of them seen from Kenneth Hahn State Recreational ...