New California Maps Show Big Increase in Areas Facing ‘High’ or ‘Very High’ Wildfire Risk
In some areas, hazards have surged. Buildings in the highest hazard zones will be subject to the strictest fire-resiliency ...
California calls for 5-foot clearance around homes: What does it mean?
A: Ensure that the 5-foot zone surrounding their home, which Newsom’s order calls “Zone 0,” is “ember resistant.” Q: What ...
Heavy rain pummels slide-prone Southern California
A swift debris flow swept a Los Angeles Fire Department vehicle off the Pacific Coast Highway and into the ocean as heavy ...
California Map Reveals Where State Is Sinking
NASA scientists used satellite measurements to map out local subsidence and uplift across the Golden State, which plays into ...
Cal Fire begins releasing new state-mandated maps showing highest fire hazard areas
Cal Fire released updated fire hazard maps for dozens of cities and towns in inland Northern California. All but one saw an ...
Cal Fire’s updated fire-hazard maps will double the area of locally managed land that must comply with safety codes
Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...
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How weather driven by climate change helped fuel the Southern California fires
For some parts of Southern California, the winter wet season got its latest start this year in over 150 years of recordkeeping, Gershunov said. “I don’t think we’re adapted to the climate ...
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Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
A newly confirmed exoplanet around a nearby sunlike star might be astronomers’ best chance yet to look for life beyond the ...
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Study says climate change made conditions that fed California wildfires more likely, more intense
WASHINGTON — Human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity of the hot, dry and windy conditions that fanned the flames of the recent devastating Southern California ...
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LA wildfires mapped: Where could the blaze go next after Palisades, Eaton and Kenneth
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech ... Wildfires have now scorched more than 39,000 acres of land in Southern California. “It looks like an atomic bomb dropped in these ...