On a new Bay Area wildfire-risk map that gauges the threat of wind-driven embers, Lars Guntvedt’s neighborhood in the hills above Los Gatos sits in the highest-danger zone. Like many of his of ...

But when smoke plumes are close to the surface, people are breathing in wildfire chemicals and tiny particles. Those ...

The City of Helena next week begins a two-month long hazardous fuels reduction project.. That means portions of some local ...

A Canadian wildfire-fueled Air Quality Alert is in effect parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and surrounding areas ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — At the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory, the Fire Modeling Institute pools data from over 30,000 communities across the country to calculate wildfire risk. The mapping process ...

If signed into law, this bill would repeal SB 762, a 2021 bill that created the maps. Homeowners living in high wildfire-risk areas on the map faced stricter building codes and were required to ...