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

California Gov. Gavin Newsom will order state officials to advance implementation of a state rule aiming to make homes more fire resistant in a wind-driven wildfire after years of delay.

"This is really a marathon and not a sprint," said Mark Ghilarducci, a retired director of the California ... Angeles County posted maps and pictures of homes in the fire zones that show which ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation warnings.

Rain and cooler temperatures will bring relief to Southern California this weekend, after a prolonged stretch of dry, breezy weather that allowed wildfires to thrive.

Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...

Lawmakers are calling on the state to expedite rules for ember-resistant defensible space zones around homes that some experts say may have helped mitigate the damage from Los Angeles' devastating ...

The Palisades Fire isn't the Slajchert family's first run in with devastating wildfires: His childhood home was destroyed in the Woolsey Fire in 2018 ... Cal Fire has released maps showing ...

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles wildfires. Some were sent to too many people, some to too few.

There is now a 30% chance of intense rain between Feb. 12 and 15 in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo ...