California officials on Monday released another set of county maps rating the likelihood and severity of wildfires as part of ...

California officials on Monday released another set of county maps rating the likelihood and severity of wildfires as part of ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in jurisdictions where the state will apply stricter fire-safety building requirements.

Researchers use models that combine how weather, topography and types of vegetation raise the risk that a fire will grow ...

Follow wildfire updates in North and South Carolina, where blazes erupted over the weekend. The largest stemmed from a forest ...

The three biggest — the Palisades, Eaton and Hughes fires — are each more than 95% contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The Border 2 Fire, which erupted ...

Mud and debris from a fire-ravaged hillside covers Topanga Canyon Boulevard on Monday. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) ...

To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame ...