I don’t mean to be a wimp, but my whole life was there,” said Walt Butler of the Altadena home he lost to the Eaton fire.

Californians live in the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

Stark aerial photos of the Eaton and Palisades fires show blocks of ash where houses used to be, and a surprising number of ...

Extreme conditions helped fuel the fast-moving fires that destroyed thousands of homes. Scientists are working to figure out ...

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

When the Palisades Fire started near a hiking trail in Los Angeles on January 7—quickly spreading to more than 200 acres in ...

The fire destroyed more than 5,000 structures and ... and it has to do with the number of structures per acre and the amount of vegetation,” said Judson Boomhower, an assistant professor in ...

A long, hot summer had dried out the plants and vegetation ... than 16,000 homes and buildings were destroyed after the fast-moving Eaton and Palisades fires exploded. In those extreme conditions ...

LA County Sheriff says about 31,000 people were under mandatory evacuation orders while another 23,000 were under evacuation ...

are the most important factor for explaining whether large fires destroy homes and other structures there — not dry weather, not dense vegetation and not the fire’s proximity to areas where ...