But an ominous new trend is reshaping forest fire behavior. Not only have the number and size of fires grown in recent ...

A trio of satellites set to launch early Tuesday will give wildland firefighters more time to respond and scientists more ...

State and federal fire officials have unveiled a new plan to boost wildfire prevention, even as California funding sources ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 4:59 p.m. at in Los Angeles County, California. The wildfire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service. At this time, there is ...

New research suggests high-severity wildfires are overtaking California's forests and killing some of the world's oldest trees.

A new wildfire was reported today at 1:39 p.m. at in San Diego County, California. Observatory #003 Fire has been burning on federal land managed by the United States Forest Service for two hours.

Two fires are in challenging terrain, officials say. An air quality alert has been issued for parts of Southern California.

With California facing increasingly destructive wildfires, experts and officials have long urged the strategic removal of dense, flammable vegetation that can erupt into particularly destructive ...

Wildfires may happen more often during the summer and early fall, but they can happen any time of the year in California.

Forest fires now burn 10 times more acreage annually than in 1985, while wildfire severity has gotten even worse. In California, 30 times more acreage burned from high-severity, forest-killing fires, ...