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 ...

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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 ...

A research team led by the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) has published a foundational inventory of emissions produced by structures destroyed by ...

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 ...

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.

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