The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds. The study, published in Science ...

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The devastating 2018 Camp Fire unleashed an urban firestorm in Paradise, California, resulting in the destruction of over 18,000 structures. While it is known that runoff from burned wildland areas ...

Since January 7, wildfires have been devastating the Los Angeles area. In the span of 10 days, several different fires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, have burned more than 40,000 acres and ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland-urban interface. And when fires sweep through such ...

Sacramento, California – On February 26, 2025, the State of California adopted the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code® (IWUIC®) as the basis for Title 24, Part 7, 2025 California ...

The U.S. Fire Administration (USFA), part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has launched new wildland fire response solutions to better respond to the approximately one-third of U.S.

As wildfires devastate southern Europe, experts say Greece and Australia offer lessons in protecting homes at the ...

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In just a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, with more than 16,000 homes and other structures damaged or destroyed by two fires in the Los Angeles area.