Deschutes County won’t join others that have asked the state to walk back its map assigning a wildfire hazard level to every ...

The Whatcom County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan does include a section on wildland fire and the county adopted a wildland fire-specific action plan in November 2023. But Whatcom County is still ...

With thousands of lives at risk, a mobile command post tasked with issuing evacuation orders struggled to keep pace with the ...

Firefighters made progress on the more than 10,000-acre Hughes Fire Friday, which sent thousands fleeing after sparking near the Los Angeles County community of Castaic a day earlier.

Mandatory evacuations were issued Wednesday in the Castaic area due to the fast-spreading Hughes Fire. CAL FIRE's map shows the evacuation zones.

USA TODAY analysis finds 3.3 million Americans live in areas with "very high" wildfire risk and 14.8 million more at ...

Last May, the Wildcat Fire ripped through over 14,000 acres in the Cave Creek Ranger District, west of Barlett Lake. In 2024, nearly 200 fires burned in the forest, spanning more than five times ...

THE FIRE STARTED YESTERDAY JUST EAST OF CASTAIC LAKE, AND THE WIND PUSHED THE FIRE WEST TOWARD HOMES AND BUSINESSES. YOU CAN SEE HOW CLOSE IT IS THERE TO THE PALISADES AND EATON FIRES. THE FLAMES ...