In just a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, with more than 16,000 homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by two fires in the Los Angeles area.
About a third of US homes are in a wildland-urban interface, a kind of high-risk area where development meets open land.
Wildland and City of Missoula fire crews are serving the community in a different way, raising money for charity through ...
The fire started after a tree fell on a power line on Bat Cave Road in Old Fort, in McDowell County, on Wednesday.
Retired firefighter Bobbie Scopa describes the differences between various types of fires, including wildland fires, and how ...
Los Angeles and other areas of California are at high risk of wildfires, but they're not alone. So are parts of Texas, ...
In the wake of the devastating Los Angeles area wildland fires, one Utah firefighter said its up to everyone to mitigate risk ...
As the deadly California fires persisted into a second week, a West Virginia University air quality expert said people within ...
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...
As we watch the fires burn our neighbors’ homes in southern California, we have to keep in mind that the fires are not burning because of an inadequate water supply or a particular fire chief or ...