Just The Facts Over the past 5 years, the state has averaged 1,860 fires, 442,000 acres burned, and $12.9 million spent ...

Worldwide, an estimated 440 million people were exposed to a wildfire encroaching on their home at some point between 2002 and 2021, new research shows. That’s roughly equivalent to the entire ...

A new study found that climate change has driven a surge of “societally disastrous” wildfires over the last four decades, with 43% of the most costly events occurring in the last 10 years. Reading ...

A recent CounterPunch article by Faith Kearns argued that municipal watersheds should be “thinned” or logged to reduce wildfire risk, citing California’s Tubbs and Camp Fires, Oregon’s Almeda Fire, ...

Disasters such as wildfires are becoming increasingly frequent occurrences, leaving homeowners scrambling for ways to proactively protect themselves and recover financially. Traditional insurance ...

Drawing on lessons from recent blazes, a state commission has released a series of recommendations to protect older adults.

Wildfire disasters worldwide are growing notably in frequency and cost, according to a new study, with nearly half of the most damaging events over the last 44 years occurring in just the past decade, ...

One of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, the Camp Fire is among the many natural disasters that have upended student learning over the past decade. Damaged schools, lost homes and layers of ...