The San Luis Obispo City Council adopted updated Fire Hazard Severity Zones. This update identifies more areas in San Luis ...

Executive Order N-29-25 permits fire victims to rebuild under California's 2022 building code rather than the stricter 2025 ...

SACRAMENTO, CALIF. — Only in California can building codes get as nutty as the state’s politics. On July 30, the California Building Standards Commission voted to adopt model building and fire codes ...

In 1919, fires raced through the eastern San Gabriel Mountains burning 115,000 acres, and in 2009, the Station fire claimed 160,000 acres to the west.

On the Shelf. Four New Books on Fire. Introduction to Fire in California: Second Edition By David Carle University of California: 248 pages, $25 The Pyrocene ...

Anyone looking at data from California’s fire season this year may be tempted to breathe a sigh of relief. Only about 312,739 acres have burned in the state so far in 2023, compared with an ...