Ash from urban wildfires is potentially full of heavy metals and other toxins. Here's a guide for what to do if ash is ...

After wildfires destabilize hillsides, the risk of landslides grows, making episodes like this more likely in the future.

In a new quick-turn analysis, UCLA climate scientists found that climate change could be responsible for roughly a quarter of ...

Gusts of up to 70 mph are possible along the coast and valleys, and in the mountains, up to 100 mph, the National Weather ...

A quickly-expanding wildfire broke out in the mountains north of Los Angeles Wednesday, leading to evacuation orders for ...

Extreme temperatures play a dangerous role in wildfires. Heat dries out vegetation, making it more flammable. Under these conditions, wildfires ignite more easily, spread faster and burn with greater ...

The fires raging around Los Angeles bring to mind another devastating U.S. fire that killed more than a thousand people on ...

As wildfires burn the landscape, they prime slopes for debris flows: powerful torrents of rock, mud and water that sweep downhill with deadly momentum.

Besides burning the most urban area, the Eaton and Palisades fires are the largest ever for California in January. Alexandra ...

The crisis underscores efforts to look beyond the forests and public lands that have been the traditional focus of wildfire ...