For the first time in 14 years, California's fire hazard severity zones maps have been updated by the state fire marshal.

California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire with the release of its final ...

One in 8 Californians now live in places at risk for the kinds of devastating wildfires that tore through Los Angeles this ...

California officials on Monday released the fourth and final set of county maps that rate the likelihood and severity of ...

A brief bout of rain Monday couldn't stop the fires, which have taken advantage of strong winds, low humidity and moderate to long-term drought conditions.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has updated its classification of areas that are more at ...

Severe weather threatens the mid-Mississippi Valley and Southeast this weekend, with possible hail, and isolated tornadoes. Newsweek's live blog is closed.

Deciding where to live has always been a high-stakes financial decision, but a changing climate makes it even more critical.

In a decisive move to protect the community’s safety, economy, and natural resources, the Truckee Town Council unanimously ...

Cal Fire’s updated maps will ... the way we live, and we must continue adapting to those changes," stated Governor Gavin Newson when the executive order was announced. "California’s resilience ...

The California governor's office called the fires "unprecedented," but Finney disagrees. "It's the same fire events over and over again. And yet, decades go by and those lessons and those impacts ...

Cal Fire officials liken the maps to flood zone maps, which show the probability of an area being inundated by floodwaters, with the same goal: to keep home, family and property safe. California ...