California’s summer is off to a fiery start after an explosion of wildfire activity across the state this week, with blazes stretching firefighting resources thin, forcing evacuations and ...

Wildfire season in California typically peaks during the hot, dry summer and fall months, but increasingly, fires are occurring year-round due to changing climate conditions, drought, and dry ...

As wildfires raged in the Western U.S. this summer, the major broadcast TV networks ... last few years in terms of the wildfire season in California … [is] very consistent with the historical ...

The wildfires that ignited in the Sierra Nevada and elsewhere in California this past weekend contributed to the now-record 2 million-plus acres that have burned in the state.The rapidly moving ...