CNN is tracking the fires in maps and charts. This map will ... largest of the fires so far this year – spread at an alarming rate: Since October, Southern California has experienced increasing ...

Oscar Murdock, my sainted father, does not wear his heart on his sleeve. At age 92, he is beyond such sentimentality. Instead, every day, he affixes a ...

Cal Fire has its own fleet of aircraft operating from 14 airfields and 11 helicopter bases across the state that can reach most fires within about 20 minutes.

Al Roker talks to climate scientist Alexander Gershunov about the conditions that made the L.A. wildfires so devastating.

The state is seeing a sharp water divide this year, with lots of rain in the north while the south has stayed dry. A ...

That’s the term the climate left is suddenly using to explain the Los Angeles wildfires ... California’s climate has long been variable with dry years following wet ones. The nearby chart ...

For many other areas of Southern California, “this is the driest start to any water year,” Tardy said, “and you can see extreme fire behavior ... looks off the charts,” Kittell said.

A study from the U.S. Geological Survey found the ecosystems on California's public lands are losing the carbon they've ...