First, lightning sparked two infernos in Southern California. Then, one fire's intense heat spawned damaging fire tornadoes.

They're worried about what the wildfires left behind. Brick chimneys and burnt trees are the sole markers of what were once picture-perfect Southern California neighborhoods. House after house on ...

"We've got to double down on the efforts of wildfire mitigation," California State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant said.

Algae with domoic acid is sometimes called red tide, and biologists think runoff from the wildfires and ocean sediment ...

A fast-moving wildfire has burned over 1,500 acres and prompted evacuations in multiple counties in central California, authorities said Monday. The Silver fire began Sunday afternoon north of ...

The Silver Fire, which ignited on Sunday afternoon near Highway 6 and Silver Canyon Road in Inyo County, is currently zero percent contained, according to the California Department of Forestry and ...

They reflect the effects of soaring temperatures on California, where hotter, drier weather has primed a landscape filled with vast acres of forest and shrubland for explosive fires — even in ...

Fire activity intensified overnight from Sunday into Monday. A vegetation fire in California rapidly spread to nearly 1,600 acres on Monday, after prompting evacuations of parts of Inyo and Mono ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden ...