The FBI would eventually call John Orr the most prolific serial arsonist of the 20th century, and when he went on trial in ...

The Santa Ana winds tend to cause the same corridors to burn over and over again. Experts say the region needs to adapt.

Weather data show how humankind’s burning of fossil fuels made the hot, dry, windy weather more likely, setting the stage for the Los Angeles wildfires.

Winter wildfires in California are often driven by the Santa Ana winds, which sweep down mountain slopes and draw moisture out of coastal areas. The winds can rapidly push any fires that start ...

Seven years ago, the Tubbs Fire decimated Santa Rosa's Coffey Park subdivision. Eighty percent of homes were rebuilt within ...

The destruction in parts of Altadena, a few miles to the west of Sierra Madre, and Pacific Palisades, which had burned in a ...

Since Los Angeles County’s Santa Ana winds-fueled firestorms began Jan. 7, the Eaton and Palisades fires have consumed more ...

About a third of US homes are in a wildland-urban interface, a kind of high-risk area where development meets open land.

Man might be moving the needle a tad by the usual greenhouse gas emissions culprits, but what is driving the tsunami of late ...

Héctor Tobar, the son of Guatemalan immigrants, writes in his 2011 novel The Barbarian ... Those same Santa Anas, which blow ...

Dozens of people are believed to have died in the Palisades and Eaton fires, which have burned down whole swaths of communities ...

One of the biggest stories of 2025 thus far has been the wildfires in California ... The terrain allows for the development of Santa Ana winds that cause any fire to spread very quickly.