According to the Western Fire Chiefs Association, California faces fire risk year-round, but peak fire season varies. In ...

Those two fires were among 22 in the TCU September Lightning Complex, in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties. On Wednesday, six of them were 150 acres or larger. Cal Fire put the complex’s combined area ...

CALISTOGA, Calif. (KGO) -- The Pickett Fire, which burned for more than two weeks in Napa County, is fully contained, CAL FIRE announced on Sunday. It burned 6,819 acres. Evacuations were ordered back ...

Federal maps show dry lightning up and down the center of California, from below Fresno ... wildfires in California history, including 2020’s August Complex, which killed a firefighter and became the ...

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Even if Pickett Fire flames don't reach the orchards, smoke will impact the economic lifeblood of Napa Valley.

A fast-moving wildfire threatens the idyllic Napa Valley, with potential to harm people, structures, and the wineries the region is synonymous with. On Aug. 21, shortly before 3 p.m., the Pickett Fire ...

Deep mudslides and flash flooding hit Southern California Thursday after drenching thunderstorms fed by the moisture of former Eastern Pacific Tropical Storm Mario spread over the region.