California wildfires are getting faster. A study published Thursday, led by University of Colorado, UC Merced and UCLA scientists, finds a nearly fourfold increase in wildfire growth rates in ...

A weekend fire in North Santa Cruz County burned through a couple of acres of dried grassland and coastal groves before ...

FELTON, Calif. — CAL FIRE has introduced a new interactive mapping tool this week, allowing Californians to see where fires have burned and assess the severity of the damage, providing crucial ...

What to Know The Gold Fire in San Bernardino National Forest was estimated at more than 1,000 acres early Thursday. The Gifford Fire in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties was at 96,106 ...

Around 5:20 p.m., Cal Fire SCU said the fire had burned about 15 acres, and that crews had reached 50% containment. The fire was contained Wednesday at 10 a.m., and it had burned 16 acres, Cal ...

Saratoga’s 2009 map provided by Cal Fire marked essentially all of the hills west and south of Highway 9 and as very high fire hazard zones. This year, many of these areas were reclassified as ...