An estimated 60% of residents who lost their homes in the January firestorms won’t be required to rebuild to the highest fire ...

Wildfires can burn so hot that they give rise to water-repellent soil, which could make ecosystems more susceptible to flooding.

After battling wildfires, Pine Valley residents are now preparing for a new threat: mudslides and flooding in burn scar areas.

In the early months of the American Revolution, Daniel Morgan and his soldiers raced north to join the Continental Army during the so-called Beeline March ...

A controlled burn conducted earlier is expected to keep the fire from spreading toward Bryce Canyon National Park. Minimal fire activity was reported in the Little Bear Fire burn scar to the north.

The attorney for Justin Halstenberg, however, says the evidence lacks substance in the case of the brush fire that started in Highland.

Forest Service public information officers pictured during the 2012 Whitewater-Baldy Fire in the Gila National Forest. A 900-acre fire known as the Iron Fire erupted Sunday in the Whitewater-Baldy ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is taking fire debris to 18 landfills and recycling centers across Southern California.

Nearly half of samples just outside the burn scar’s boundary had lead levels above the state limit. And downwind of the fire’s boundary, between 70% and 80% of samples surpassed that limit.

New fire maps put nearly 4 million Californians in hazardous zones Roughly 1-in-10 Californians are subject to an array of building code, defensible space and real estate disclosure rules.

To put the Crabapple Fire burn scar in perspective, when overlaid over San Antonio, it’s the equivalent of a burned area from roughly St. Mary’s University, through downtown, then over to the ...

Mudslides and debris flows are a particularly high risk when heavy rain hits wildfire burn scars as the soil of this scorched terrain can develop a top layer that repels water following a fire ...