The Latest Breaking News on Wildfires

Have budget cuts fuelled the Los Angeles fires? Mayor Bass defends decisions as winds drive blazes.

The Los Angeles fires are a national disaster of epic proportions. City officials, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and President-elect Donald Trump have traded accusations about what caused this crisis. But as an engineering professor who lives in Los Angeles and has studied extreme events and natural and human-caused disasters for…

Fire danger remains high in parts of Los Angeles that have been ablaze for days

California's disaster shows how climate change has made wildfires more intense and more frequent

Firefighters are readying for another round of critical fire weather after calmer than expected winds gave them a much-needed reprieve

As California’s massive wildfires burn, thousands of GoFundMe campaigns for victims have become an outlet for onlookers transfixed by the blazes and eager to do something to help

High winds and severely dry conditions have created a ‘particularly dangerous situation’

Above the roaring fires devastating parts of Los Angeles is an incongruous sight: air tankers dropping gallons of bright red and Barbie-pink slurry over forest, homes, cars, and anything else that might lie in the blazes' path.

Stars from Beyoncé to Eva Longoria, Halle Berry and Meghan Markle supporting families and frontline workers

Private efforts to combat wildfires are not just for the superrich – many work for insurers seeking to minimize the policies they’d have to pay out

Elite federal fire investigators arrived in Los Angeles this week to probe cause of deadly blaze