Updating map of Southern California fires An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts the expanse of the wildfires across Southern California. The Hughes Fire, which erupted in northwest L.A. County on Wednesday, Jan. 22, spread to more than 10,000 acres and prompted evacuation ord...
Fast-moving fires, which were once considered unusual, have swept through a growing number of communities. These urban fires include the Santa Rosa and Paradise fires in Northern California; the Marshall Fire in Colorado; the Lytton in British Columbia; and in 2023, the Lahaina wildfires in Hawa...
Furthermore, we computed the ratio between the number of OBEs and the total number of fires in each respective category. Extended Data Fig. 3 Active fire detections and coincident fire weather for the 2020 Creek Fire in California, in the subtropical mountain system biome. The top-left plot ...
Multiple fires are raging throughout California, forcing evacuations and leaving a destructive path. The Camp fire in Northern California’s Butte County has killed at least 86, and three are still missing. It’s the deadliest fire in state history. The Woo...
“There’s a lot of finger-pointing and sort of like picking who you don’t like and blaming them,” said Brad Franklin, a water resource economist and research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California. “It’s silly to pick one major water user in the San Joaquin...
Firefighters have been called in from outside the region, traveling in from Northern California, states such as Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Arizona and even outside the country from Canadaand Mexico. The National Guard has been deployed to the wildfire zones while President Joe ...
In October, several fires in California were responsible for more than 85 casualties with the vast majority of these taking place in a single fire event in northern California (Camp Fire) that burned more than 10000 homes in the town of Paradise2. Both the occurrence of and changes in ...
a northern california sheriff announced friday he is firing a deputy who used a choke hold on a man, who later died, while officers were investigating a suspected carjacking. sonoma county sheriff mark essick said in a video that he found footage of the deputy's actions “extremely troubl...
The latest:More than 200,000 customers remain without power in Northern California, according to California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services. Cause of fires:Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) filed two reports indicating their equipment may be involved in the start of two fires in the San Fr...
Southern California is a biodiversity hotspot and home to over 23 million people. Over recent decades the annual wildfire area in the coastal southern California region has not significantly changed. Yet how fire regime will respond to future anthropogen