Training in advance was prescient for helicopter crews who battled the recent Los Angeles wildfires, which devastated the region during what typically is the offseason for California forest fires.

State officials have released a third batch of maps showing fire hazards in California's Bay Area and the state's northern ...

Text messages released to ABC News through a public records request provide new insight about what local officials were ...

Each year, legislation aimed at better wildfire mitigation fails – often due to cost or conflict with environmental ...

Researchers use models that combine how weather, topography and types of vegetation raise the risk that a fire will grow ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in jurisdictions where the state will apply stricter fire-safety building requirements.

According to preliminary estimates from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ... and Mell (2011). Table 1 summarizes the insured losses of the historical wildfire events.

About 3,000 seasonal firefighters with Cal Fire could soon work year-round as climate change fuels more intense wildfires ... for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or ...

according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The two major fires and several smaller ones created the worst natural disaster in Los Angeles County history, killing 28 ...

This week, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire ... The maps, last updated in 2011, identify new areas where new development must adhere to the highest ...