The Whatcom County Natural Hazards Mitigation Plan does include a section on wildland fire and the county adopted a wildland fire-specific action plan in November 2023. But Whatcom County is still ...
“Most precipitation will fall in the Far West, Southwest, Rockies, and eastern U.S., especially Tennessee and surrounding ...
Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...
Three Corpus Christi firefighters recently returned from California, where they helped battle the wildfires in the Pacific ...
The vast majority of homes destroyed in the Eaton fire were outside of Cal Fire's "very high" fire hazard severity zones, yet ...
By Jeremia Kimelman, CalMatters In just a single month, 2025 is the second most destructive fire year in California history, ...
The maps have two main components—the wildfire ... and apply only if a property is both in a high wildfire hazard zone and wildland-urban interface, fire-hardening will only be required after ...
This map shows wildfires that have been updated within the past 7 days from the Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).
County fire departments that provide protection in unincorporated rural towns and wildland areas neighboring bigger cities are often the first line of defense against wildfires also are understaffed.
The fire was reported around 5 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Van Buren Boulevard and Clay Street, near the Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter, according to CalFire.
"From Reedley, it's definitely one of the wildland fire programs that we have hired most from," U.S. Forest Service Fire Management Planning Specialist Brian Grabowski said. Current and past ...