As if they aren’t already facing enough, firefighters in California also could encounter fire tornadoes — a rare but dangerous phenomenon in which wildfires create their own weather.

The National Weather Service has issued a high wind warning for Monday, with gusts up to 65 mph forecast for parts of central California that could cause further fire spread.

Fire activity intensified overnight from Sunday into Monday. A vegetation fire in California rapidly spread to nearly 1,600 acres on Monday, after prompting evacuations of parts of Inyo and Mono ...

Insurers say a neighborhood like the one built in Southern California protects residents from fire — and perhaps other close by properties as well.

“We’ve got to double down on the efforts in wildfire mitigation. That starts at home,” California State Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant told reporters Friday. “We need homeowners in El Dorado ...

Personnel work a hot spot Sunday, March 30, 2025, on the Silver Fire, which has burned roughly 1,250 acres near Bishop and was 0% contained on Monday. Cal Fire BDU A wind-stoked wildfire that ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden ...

and a minimal threat of tornadoes." Gusty winds and dry conditions will produce elevated to critical fire weather over the central High Plains April 21: Nebraska, Kansas and Colorado will be the ...