Wildfires

On Wednesday, a fast-moving brush fire in Orange County, California, torched at least 20 homes and prompted emergency evacuations. The Laguna Niguel fire began Wednesday afternoon and spread to nearly 200 acres as it swept down houses along hillside streets in one of California's wealthiest areas.…

California is closing all its national forests until September 17 due to the increasing swaths of fire on California forests. Beginning from Caldor Fire near Lake Tahoe to the continuing Dixie Fire in northern California, the US Forest Service announced closure to all public. With the closure,…

Throughout the summer, Northern California has been plagued by fires as the summer season continues to get warmer and drier. Worried by the critical fire conditions, firefighter crews continue managing other fires as they're reported. In addition, over a dozen fires are being fought throughout the…

The Pentagon is temporarily extending FireGuard, a surveillance program that provides military and government satellite images to firefighters to implement effective firefighting strategies and evacuations. FireGuard was scheduled to end on September 30th, 2021, but its temporary renewal will last…

Thousands of residents have been evacuated due to the Palisades Fires in Topanga Canyon. The fire began Friday night and has grown to 1,325 acres, but unfortunately is 0% contained, thus forcing residents to evacuate. The surrounding vegetation, plants and trees provide perfect fuel for the fire to…

With the most worse season of wildfires in California, Gov. Newsom decides to utilize a $536-million proposal in order to implement various prevention measures, such as vegetation management and reconstruction fire-resistant architecture all across the state. California is expecting another dry…

Early Sunday afternoon, much of Northern California is red-flagged for fire danger with strong winds gusting up to 90 mph in some areas and extremely dry air. Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has shut off power for more than 355,000 households and business in 34 different counties with some…

A vegetation fire began in Silverado Canyon in Irvine, CA early Monday morning. Propelled by strong winds, the fire spread quickly, burning about 2,000 acres by noon. Approximately 60,000 residents have been evacuated and some highways have been closed to assist in dealing with the fire. California…

The first time in decades, the August Complex that began in an area in California has spread and burned at least 1,002,000 acres. Since August 16, the area is bigger than Rhode Island in size. In 2020 until now, there have been 4 million acres of land across the nation burned by wildfires. Millions…

Indigenous groups have traditionally set fires to improve the health of forests and reduce underbush. This practice was reduced after Europeans settled in the US and functionally stopped after “The Big Blowup” wildfire in 1910. Experts saw the risk of this, and in the 1990s forest managers…

Blazing with increasing intensity and size each year, California fires have burned a total of 10.8 million acres (and counting) in the past decade. About 3 million of those acres were burnt in 2020 alone. Fire season will most likely continue into the rest of autumn as new fires tend to come along…

Throughout the past couple months, California—and the west coast—have been plagued by multiple fires. The lengthy fire season and greater intensity of fires have been linked to climate change. Millions of acres of land have been destroyed, leading to thousands of evacuees seeking refuge during a…

The August Complex fire is the largest fire in the history of California burns. More than 471,000 acres of land has been burned. The Complex fire has now beaten the 2018 Medocino Complex fires that burned 459,000 acres. There were 30 individual fires all caused by lightning. More fires all…

The intense fires in California continue to burn through Butte, Plumas, and Yuba counties. The number of death residents has increased to 10 people, and 16 people still remain missing. The fires, called the North Complex, have burned almost 252,000 acres of land. Smog continues to fill the clouds,…