CalFire has new threat designations for areas much closer to urban areas than before. Maps for the Central Valley came out ...

State officials recently added tens of thousands of acres to wildfire hazard zones in and around Ventura County cities.

An updated draft Fire Hazard Severity Map is now available for public review and comment. This map is based on CalFire’s ...

People living near a scrapyard on the north side of Fredericton, scene of a fire this week, say they worry about future ...

The updated fire maps are being rolled out in four phases. The first two ended on Feb. 25 and covered counties in Northern California and the San Francisco Bay, including Santa Cruz County.

Los Angeles County said Wednesday that it’s suing Southern California Edison, alleging the utility’s equipment sparked January’s Eaton Fire, which destroyed more than 9,400 structures and ...

Photo / Fire and Emergency NZ The cause of the Waipoua ... Brodie Stone covers crime and emergency for the Northern Advocate. She has spent most of her life in Whangārei and is passionate about ...

The largest fire in the Upstate is a nearly 500-acre blaze near Landrum in Polk County along the South Carolina-North Carolina that has required evacuations and was 30% contained as of the morning ...

The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews ... to the California Association of Counties, it is unlikely that home insurance providers would use the maps as a ...

"It's the single best law that we have going forward to limit the kind of destruction we just saw in Southern California ... a fire hazard map that uses wildland-urban interface boundaries ...