As climate change intensifies, wildfires have become more frequent and devastating. Rising temperatures, prolonged droughts, and high winds have fueled destructive blazes across California and beyond.

Researchers from the Silvis Lab and Space Science and Engineering Center provide insight on the causes of recent fires in Los ...

The Los Angeles (LA) wildfires began with with the Palisades fire, which erupted the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades as a mere brush fire. Evacuation orders were issued for that fire and by ...

But when devastating wildfires erupted around L.A. last month, the utility hadn’t installed the experimental system more broadly across its territory. It remains unknown what caused the Eaton, ...

Meanwhile, Southern California water reservoirs have never had more water stored in their system. Fire hydrants ran dry, not because of a lack of planning but because the demand for water as the ...

At least 29 people have died in the fires across the Los Angeles area. At least two of the people killed in the Southern ...

While the wet weather may bring an end to a devastating run of wildfires in the state, it could also cause flooding and other hazards.