California Wildfires

California wildfires may continue to burn into December - experts

California has already surpassed the acreage burned at this point last year, which ended up setting the record. Now it’s entering a period when powerful winds have often driven the deadliest blazes.

2020: A year of raging wildfires, floods and scorching temperatures

From storms in the Atlantic, wildfires in California, killer floods in Asia and Africa, melting of the Arctic and bushfires in Australia, 2020 was more than a disastrous year with the pandemic.

Dying gusts give crews hope in California fires

"We don't have those critical burning conditions that we were experiencing those last two nights," he said of Glass Fire raging through Napa and Sonoma counties in western US.

In pictures: Fierce winds power devastating California, Oregon wildfires

Oregon is the hardest-hit state in the western US, where nearly 100 extreme wildfires are burning, even as forecasters say some weather relief is in sight.

Tens of thousands flee as fires rage across California

Pilot killed, dozens of homes reduced to ash as US state reports hundreds of fires, including 23 major fires or groups of fires that officials blame on "extraordinary weather" and "lightning strikes."

Fires spare Reagan library but menace homes near Los Angeles

A blaze in the Simi Valley northeast of Los Angeles known as the "Easy Fire" forced the evacuation of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and nearby homes, officials said.

Rain complicates task of finding California fire victims' remains

The so-called Camp Fire virtually obliterated the city of Paradise, located 280 km northeast of San Francisco, on November 8, killing at least 84 people and destroying nearly 14,000 homes.

Statewide death toll from California wildfire climbs to 86

There are 563 people still unaccounted for in and around Paradise, a community of nearly 27,000 people that was largely incinerated when the flames swept through two weeks ago.

US National Guard to search for victims of California's deadliest wildfires

The state-wide death toll from both the Camp and Woolsey fires rose to at least 60 as the Camp Fire grew overnight from 5,000 acres to 135,000 acres.

Death toll in 'deadliest' California wildfire jumps to 42

Additional remains of people killed by northern California wildfire, also known as the Camp Fire, recovered, making it the deadliest wildland blaze in state's history, Sheriff Kory Honea says.

Death toll hits 31 from California fires as search goes on for victims

At least five search teams were working in Paradise, a town of 27,000 that was largely incinerated on Thursday, and surrounding Northern California communities.

Death toll rises to 25 in California wildfire

Fourteen more bodies were found in and around Paradise where at least 6,700 homes and businesses have been destroyed.