Here’s a look at the often-fierce winds that topple power lines and trees and can turn a spark into a raging wildfire.

More than 100,000 people are under evacuation orders, and the fires have consumed about 45 square miles — roughly the size of ...

Hydroclimate whiplash – rapid swings between intensely wet and dangerously dry weather – has already increased globally due to climate change, with further large increases expected as warming ...

Wind-whipped wildfire blew through communities of every socioeconomic status and stripe, merging, psychically if not ...

Wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force Wednesday after setting off a desperate escape from burning ...

The Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Sunset fires are burning in Southern California, forcing tens of thousands of people to evacuate. Here are the latest updates.

The devastating wildfires ripping through northwest Los Angeles are still burning as firefighters respond to the threat ...

The fire and smoke in Chicago comes as destructive and deadly wildfires burn in Los Angeles, California, with firefighters ...

Firefighters battled to control a series of major fires that have killed five people, ravaged communities from the Pacific Coast to Pasadena, and sent thousands of people frantically fleeing their ...

While calm winds and days of soaking rain are what fire-ravaged areas of Southern California desperately need, more rounds of wind are in store that will again cause the wildfire risk to surge, ...

The story is deeply personal for LA-based reporters, who have put their lives on the line to cover the devastation in their own communities. “Everyone you know is affected somehow,” says one CNN ...