California Wildfires

As fire season takes hold, California is managing fuels and fire on federal lands. Can California keep it up?

California, which is having an unusually quiet fire summer, has deployed engines and crews to fight fires raging in Colorado and the Pacific Northwest — but even this well-resourced state continues to feel vulnerable.

Full suppression by 10 a.m. has not been reinstated under Trump but political pressure remains.

Trump administration targets protections for more than 4 million acres of California forests.

A fast-moving fire near Yosemite and an incoming heat wave highlight a growing link between heat and wildfires.

California's wildfires are destroying forests faster than the state can replant them, and federal cuts are making the gap worse.

With reservoirs brimming — but snowpack abysmal — experts warn of a potentially early fire season.

In 2025, devastating California wildfires in LA became the state's most destructive. Climate goals faced federal opposition as Trump blocked clean-car mandates. Refineries closed, water conflicts intensified, and legislators passed compromises.

Echoing state and local officials, a new analysis agrees: hydrant failures in the Palisades fire were ‘the rule rather than the exception.’

One of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history, the Camp Fire is among the many natural disasters that have upended student learning over the past decade.