The Kern County Fire Department announced that open burning of hazard reduction fuels will begin on Saturday, February 1, ...

NOAA satellites paired with AI data analysis also generate alerts but over a wider area. They can detect heat signatures, map fire perimeters and burned areas, and track smoke and pollutants to assess ...

A variety of new technologies aim to improve wildfire detection and help map the spread of blazes Embers from the Eaton Fire ...

This all contributes to rising home insurance premiums. From 2020 to 2023, those costs have increased by 33%, rising from ...

North Carolina is another state prone to hurricanes—and in fact Hurricane Helene last fall triggered a Biden administration ...

Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,448 acres after being active for ...

When disaster strikes, government emergency alert systems offer a simple promise: Residents will get information about nearby ...

The fire agencies are helping Pioneertown residents earn designation as a Firewise Community from the National Fire ...

Global warming caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry and windy conditions that drove the recent deadly fires around Los Angeles about 35 times more likely to occur, an ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...

What we’ve discovered through years of studies and user interviews is that, in an emergency, information fatigue never occurs ...