The nightmare wildfires in Los Angeles are a reminder of why news organizations matter. In reporting the breaking news hour ...

We can mitigate the risk of catastrophic wildfires with prescribed burns. By reducing brush and other tinder, these small, ...

The devastating Los Angeles County blazes have so far killed at least 27 people and razed thousands of structures.

The home ignites, becoming the fire’s fuel. Soon, it puts off radiant heat that can ignite the exterior of the home next door ...

Besides the heartbreak of losing lives and losing homes, there are obvious economic factors here that cannot be ignored: ...

Climate change has brought both fiercer rains and deeper droughts, leaving the city with brush like kindling—and the ...

Artists take on climate change denial, the blame game, and more ...

For people who don’t live in California, the nation’s most populous state can be a little hard to understand. Home to ...

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the ...

Two years before wildfires incinerated swaths of Los Angeles, the city’s fire chief Kristin M. Crowley identified “one ...

Somini Sengupta, a Times climate reporter, on her relationship with the city, its mythology, and a reckoning with disaster.

Fire weather” is a term increasingly used to describe the atmospheric conditions that have rendered California’s recent wildfires uncontrollable. This emerging pattern combines hot, dry air that ...