Weeks after deadly fires swept through Los Angeles County, the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California's largest utilities to ...

Why it matters: Climate change and drought are causing wildfires to become more intense, widespread and harder to put out.

More than half of habitable land in Austin is now considered at risk of being damaged in a wildfire. That’s up from just ...

Austin City Council on Thursday approved an expanded wildfire risk map that some local industry groups have opposed due to ...

A bill that would eliminate a controversial Oregon wildfire hazard map moved one step closer to reality on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Wildfire voted unanimously to advance Senate Bill 83.

Hundreds of firefights from across the U.S. are battling the worst wildfires in the country taking place in Western North Carolina and South Carolina's Upstate. As of Sunday morning, there were four ...

June 1, 2023, marked a critical date as CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps. The updated maps showcase vibrant ... High Hazard Zones: Homes in orange areas must ...

Two Oregon lawmakers are calling on major insurance companies to stop using their own internal wildfire risk maps to drop ... pay for through insurance. In 2023, Oregon insurers paid out less ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden ...

according to the North Carolina Forest Service wildfire map. On Tuesday, the National Weather Service warned that the Carolinas would face fire danger throughout the rest of the week. "The ...

All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of ...