Residents in some parts of the Sonoma Valley could face up to nine hours of traffic trying to evacuate on limited, outdated ...

Nearly a month since blazes ignited across Los Angeles County, the channels of communications have been established between ...

Napa Sonoma Grocery Company in south Reno announced it will close permanently, following a roof fire that occurred on January 15. The Reno Fire Department extinguished the blaze, but the ...

Wildfire events may become an increasingly dominant and troubling source of pollution in urban areas, say researchers. Wildfire smoke features a complex mixture of pollutants, including polycyclic ...

Wildfire events may become an increasingly dominant and troubling source of pollution in urban areas, say researchers. Wildfire smoke features a complex mixture of pollutants, including polycyclic ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...

“There’s nothing about fire risk in the WUI [wildland-urban interface] map,” said McCaffrey ... high fire risk is the 2017 Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County. The Coffey Park neighborhood ...

Californians live in the wildland-urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, they often leave destruction.

Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — the area fire officials and researchers call the wildland urban interface or ...

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