The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

Changing climate patterns and below average rainfall, when combined with extended periods of high winds, increase the risk of ...

A wildfire in central California has increased in scope and has become the largest wildfire in the state this year, surpassing the devastating blazes that ravaged the Los Angeles metropolitan ...

For the past three days, firefighters in Riverside County, California, and elsewhere have been working nonstop to tame the wildfires.

At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest.

ALTADENA, California (Reuters) -Terry Kilgore lives alone in his Altadena neighborhood in California, sleeping in a ...

The fire rapidly spread to over 35,000 acres overnight as it burned through grasslands in a section of the Los Padres National Park. By around 9:30 p.m. PT on July 3, the fire expanded to ...

Southern California has experienced below-average precipitation this year, less than 70% of the typical average in most areas ...

The Los Angeles County wildfires unleashed all kinds of contaminants once locked away in paints, plastics and elsewhere.

The Madre fire burning in San Luis Obispo County has grown to become the largest wildfire California has seen this year. It ...

State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in ...

"The threat is driven by persistent drought, high grass loads, and weakening coastal moisture." Firefighters scramble as multiple wildfires erupt in California 'expected to increase steadily' first ...