The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...

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

Tuesday's report, too rapid for peer-review yet, found global warming boosted the likelihood of high fire weather conditions in this month's fires by 35 percent and its intensity by 6 percent.

In our news wrap Thursday, California firefighters are battling new fires in the Los Angeles area, Oxycontin maker Purdue Pharma and the family who owns it will pay up to $7.4 billion to settle ...

Hughes is the newest fire to ignite as Southern California has been inundated with deadly blazes this month. The Palisades and Eaton fires, the largest in Los Angeles County, also sparked numerous ...

A forecast map from AccuWeather showed there were at least elevated fire risks for several counties in Southern California, including San Luis Obispo and Imperial. Furthermore, there were ...

The phenomena that resulted from these wildfires in California are called fire whirls, fire devils, or better known as “fire tornadoes” or “firenadoes.” These events are rare and not ...

California's growing population has expanded ... Fire-atmosphere interactions can even create their own wind systems, such as fire whirls. The location of the ignition point also matters.

Here's a roundup of checks about the Los Angeles fires from the USA TODAY Fact Check Team: The clip was not filmed in California. It shows a pair of fire whirls from the Remington Fire ...

Across the country from the California wildfires, researchers in Massachusetts are working to recreate a smaller-scale version of the phenomenon in a lab where it can be studied. A look at fire ...

The longer a fire lingers, the hotter it grows and the ... a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of California Davis. “We need to build noncombustible homes.” ...

More than 12,300 structures across Los Angeles have been destroyed, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. But while the January fires rank as the most destructive ...