Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the ...

The L.A. wildfires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing ...

Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of ...

Communities like Malibu were ravaged by the Palisades Fire, and drone video shows the apocalyptic damage that lies across the ...

Thirteen years ago, the LAFD took the type of dramatic measures in preparation of dangerous winds that the department failed ...

Fueled by powerful winds and dry conditions, a series of ferocious wildfires erupted last week and roared across the Los Angeles area.

The Vogts designed their Malibu house to withstand disasters ... in 2017 wiped out more than 5,000 structures in a Northern California county. Homeowners faced challenges, but hundreds were ...

Wildfires in January are not unprecedented in southern California and only last month the Franklin Fire burned more than 4000 acres around Malibu. The National Weather Service warned on 7 January ...

"Tom Hanks’ Malibu mansion is a great example of how fire-resistant construction helps in fire-prone areas," says Vasilevski.

But while the January fires rank as the most destructive in Los Angeles history, they have not been as damaging as others in ...

Before 2008, California had never seen more than a million acres burn in one year, but that year there were over 1.4 million ...