A new prescribed burn, called Fr Concow Ub, was initiated today at 8:12 a.m. in Butte County, California. The prescribed fire ...

Red Cap Fire initially started 2:06 p.m. Dec. 6 in Humboldt County, California. It has burned one acre of federal land ...

Crews continued to battle the Blue Fire in Northern California on Friday, September 5, with evacuation orders issued for parts of the area. Footage released by the US Forest Service shows an aircraft ...

Indigenous fire practices are slowly regaining wider acceptance in California, but the dream of burning freely based on the needs of the land is still a long way off.

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Under California’s proposed defensible space rules, ‘no landscaping materials that are likely to be ignited by ...

Fires sparked by lightning strikes that hit California early Tuesday razed over 13,000 acres in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, officials said. By Yan Zhuang Thomas Fuller and Amy Graff Scores of ...

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JACKSON, Calif. (AP) — Fourth of July revelers stranded by a wildfire in a mountainous California region that’s a top tourist destination have safely evacuated, but the fire is still chewing through ...

Numerous wildfires erupted in the central and northern regions of California on Tuesday during an outbreak of thunderstorms and dry lightning that some meteorologists had warned would spark new fires ...

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Roughly 500 years ago in California's High Sierra, pine cones dropped to the ground and a cycle began. The Aztec Empire was falling. The printing press was new. The seedlings grew. Half a millennia ...