Recent storms and cooler weather helped ease Santa Rosa’s fire risk, allowing the city to scale back its wildfire readiness — though officials say residents should still be prepared.

Santa Rosa Fire Department ends the 2025 wildfire season, easing weed abatement rules and allowing pile burning permits.

EIGHT YEARS AGO, Cross Creek Road, a winding street in Santa Rosa's upscale Fountaingrove development, was flanked by oak ...

When I landed in Northern California in October 2017 as a senior FEMA official, the sky was orange at noon. Entire ...

Thanks to the extra rainfall in the Bay Area on top of late summer and early fall showers, fire risk has reduced in the area, ...

Over the last eight years, wildfires have burned down more houses than at any time in California history. Decades of homebuilding in forests and foothills have left millions of residents exposed as ...

Santa Rosa Fire Chief says next step will be to build a new fire station for the engine in the coming year SANTA ROSA, Calif. - Santa Rosa's Fire Department announced it has purchased new equipment ...

Santa Rosa's Fountaingrove neighborhood was heavily damaged by the wind-driven Tubbs Fire in 2017. Dry fall weather and encroaching storms increase the likelihood of similar fire danger. Firefighters ...

A sprawling energy package passed at the eleventh hour by lawmakers includes a massive infusion to the state’s wildfire restitution fund, but survivors of past Northern California fires ...

Seventy percent of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since fall 2017, according to the ...

A northern California wildfire raging in the foothills of the Cascade range has claimed three lives, officials said on Monday, as a separate blaze prompted mass evacuations and spread turmoil to the ...