About 101,500 new housing units were permitted statewide last year, a 9% drop from the previous year and the state’s lowest ...

Wildfire Near San Bernardino Mountains Prompts Evacuation Orders The fire, which was burning near the town of Apple Valley, had exploded to over 4,200 acres since starting on Tuesday afternoon.

As of Wednesday morning, it was at 4,205 acres (6½ square miles) with 10% containment, said the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The evacuation order remained in effect ...

The California Ranch Fire, which ignited Tuesday afternoon, had scorched around 4,205 acres of land in San Bernardino county by the end of the day. After starting at 2.33 p.m. local time on June ...

However, fire season is a never-ending phenomenon now, said Toni Davis, the public information officer for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s San Luis Obispo unit. “We ...

Schoolchildren were escorted outside of buildings as a precaution when the ground started moving, said Capt. Thomas Shoots of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection for San ...

The newly updated fire severity map released by California Forestry and Fire Protection shows quite a few communities across the Central Coast as being susceptible to wildfires, including San Luis ...

The maps are part of a 40-year-old program in which the state Forestry and Fire Protection Department, or Cal Fire, periodically documents areas that are most prone to having a wildfire within the ...

Cal Fire maps Cal Fire officials stated that the updated maps show 2007 to 2011 coverage compared to 2025. The coverage zones are based on several factors, including vegetation, fire history ...

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire, has been releasing these maps in installments over the last six weeks, beginning with counties in the state’s far north and ...