The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...

Some of these strategies are already mandated by California’s fire code, which went into effect in 2008, and by Los Angeles ... Los Angeles is set to host the 2028 Summer Olympics, which may ...

Two weeks have passed since a destructive wave of wildfires first gripped southern California, burning tens of thousands of acres and killing more than two dozen people in what has become one of ...

As wildfires relentlessly sweep across Southern California and other parts of the world, Manzhu Yu, an assistant professor of geography at Penn State, offered insights into the ongoing crisis in ...

In a state that averages more than 7,500 wildfires a year some California ... drove through Southern California over the summer, and marveled at the “scrubby, highly flammable” plant landscape ...

The official cause of the fires has not been determined. The combination of drought-like conditions — Southern California has had less than 10% of average rainfall since Oct. 1 — and powerful ...

as a brush fire. The blaze, which had grown to 23,713 acres, was 31% contained by Friday night, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire. Cal Fire said ...

We explain what’s known about how the catastrophic L.A. wildfires started and the factors that scientists do -- and don’t -- ...

An extremely warm summer and fall ... the reasons behind the extreme dryness of vegetation in Southern California when the fires started, global warming likely contributed roughly one-fourth ...

The Palisades and Eaton fires have consumed more than 37,000 acres in Southern California, with both at varying degrees of containment as of Thursday. Both fires are expected to be among the top ...