The Golden State weathered 8,013 wildfires in 2025, including the destructive Palisades Fire in Southern California, fire officials reported. In all, California wildfires blackened 525,223 acres, ...

Cal Fire will examine the Ventura County Fire Department's response to a small wildfire that subsequently rekindled from the ...

Seventy percent of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since fall 2017, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. To understand the pace and ...

MONO COUNTY, Calif. – A large wildfire erupted in Mono County, California midday on Nov. 13 and has since burned over 3,000 acres, damaging numerous structures, and forcing mandatory evacuations for ...

The Garnet Fire has scorched nearly 60,000 acres of the Sierra Nevada in central California. The wildfire burning in the mountains northeast of Fresno was 85% contained as of Tuesday, Sept. 16, after ...

Story Highlights Firefighters struggle to contain fire raging since Thursday near Santa Cruz Mountains Officials declare state of emergency for Santa Cruz County; no reports of injuries About 2,400 ...

Hours after a fierce, wind-whipped wildfire ignited in Mono County on Thursday afternoon, damaging homes, a storm rolled in, bringing with it much-needed precipitation. But it wasn't a coincidence ...

LOS ANGELES — In a case that calls into question plant clearing techniques that have become fundamental to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire, the San Diego ...