New hazard designations increase the number of homes that must comply with wildfire building codes during reconstruction.

Most of them involve around a gallows-humor variation on the theme: “Now, they tell us!” Because, you know, Altadena burned down, and that is that. Miles from the mountains, from the Angeles National ...

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the ...

A Washington Post analysis shows that some officials knew of the fire’s westward spread hours before evacuation orders were sent to residents in western Altadena.