On Sunday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a statewide emergency as crews battled dozens of fires. The largest is in Sonoma County's wine country north of San Francisco.

After a mild fire year in 2023, California's early fire season of 2024 has had a busy start. A persistent heatwave is making conditions more challenging for wildland firefighters.

With President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, federal aid to fire-ravaged Los Angeles has already become entangled in a partisan political fight in Washington. The disastrous wildfires ...

When it comes to California’s increasing battle against wildfires, those new challenges begin well ahead of disaster response. The Trump administration has also targeted NOAA and its subsidiary ...

The wildfire that started in Orange County before spreading to Riverside County burned 23,519 acres at 31% containment. Though it may be smaller in the number of acres scorched, nearly 200 ...

In 2020, when dry lightning sparked an outbreak of wildfires across Northern California, more than 4.3 million acres burned, but in 2022 and 2023, only about 300,000 acres burned each year.

The company plans to offer California homeowners an option to buy more affordable insurance coverage in wildfire-distressed ...

State Farm, California’s largest insurer by market share, this summer declined to renew 30,000 homeowner policies, mainly due to wildfire risks. The company dropped 13.2% of policies in Thouati ...