Ensuring the immediate safety of the residents is the priority, experts say. A perfect storm of weather and climate conditions made the California wildfires nearly impossible to contain once they ...

The Madre Fire in San Luis Obispo County grew to 52,500 acres entering the Fourth of July weekend. See where California wildfires are burning.

The aftermath of the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., in January. The peak of California’s fire season, when fires are most abundant and the most acres burn, occurs from June through October.

The Madre Fire is now the largest wildfire in California in 2025 — surpassing the Los Angeles-area fires that devastated parts of the region. The Palisades Fire burned more than 23,000 acres ...

A devastating dozen wildfires have erupted across California as dry weather and wind only fan the flames.. They include the Wolf Fire in Riverside, the Juniper Fire in Riverside, the Lake Fire in ...

In 2020, dry lightning ignited a wildfire outbreak in northern California that burned more than 4.3 million acres. However, in 2022 and 2023, the total dropped to about 300,000 acres annually.

Since 1993, seven of the 10 worst fire years in California, ranked by total acres burned, have occurred after drier-than-normal winters. By contrast, ...

Extreme wildfires that have been burning through the California landscape over recent decades are disrupting wildlife habitats within the state, new research shows.

Southern California fire chiefs cautioned Friday that a season of devastating wildfires is all but guaranteed, amid parched conditions following a dry winter. The warning, delivered at the L.A ...

In 2020, when dry lightning sparked an outbreak of wildfires across Northern California, more than 4.3 million acres burned, but in 2022 and 2023, only about 300,000 acres burned each year.