Cal Fire data shows fires this year have damaged or destroyed 119 structures; ... and 2011, when about 5.8 million acres had been consumed by flame over that time period. ...

As destructive wildfires have ravaged California over the past decade ... the former California insurance commissioner who ...

At least four firefighters have been injured over the last week while battling three wildfires in Northern California forests ...

The devastating wildfires tearing across California, Oregon, Washington and several other Western states are an increasingly familiar scene, as blazes have become larger and more destructive over ...

California has 78 more annual “fire days” — when conditions are ripe for fires to spark — than 50 years ago. When is California’s wildfire season? It is now almost year-round .

At more than 14,000 acres, the Eaton fire is the second-largest wildfire burning in Southern California. It is 95 percent contained. The blaze is also burning in Los Angeles County.

Not since 2011, has Southern California faced a wind event of this magnitude, and according to meteorologists from the National Weather Service in Los Angeles, stern warnings of a “life ...

The New York Times notes a number of past major fires were determined to be started by old blazes that officials believed were put out, including the 2023 wildfire in Maui that killed 102 people ...

The aftermath of the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., in January. The peak of California’s fire season, when fires are most abundant and the most acres burn, occurs from June through October.