Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and natural hazard real estate disclosures at the time of sale.

Sep. 19—For generations, fire lookout towers stood as landmarks across the American West. Binoculars in hand, dedicated fire spotters scanned the landscape for smoke and radioed firefighters before ...

The Garnet Fire has scorched nearly 60,000 acres of the Sierra Nevada in central California. The wildfire burning in the mountains northeast of Fresno was 85% contained as of Tuesday, Sept. 16, after ...