California wildfires continue with dry conditions and powerful winds —which are due to last through Friday — fueling at least five fires.

All the ingredients were there for a massive wildfire. The mercurial Santa Ana winds gusted up to 85 mph before dawn Friday in San Diego County’s backcountry. The relative humidity fell below 10%. And ...

Con los vientos de Santa Ana azotando el sur de California y aumentando el riesgo de incendios forestales, los residentes del ...

The Mission Fire burned five acres in Fallbrook, California, before being contained by fire crews, damaging an outbuilding.

California has always been vulnerable to raging wildfires, but scientists have said that climate change has made them more frequent and severe. By the end of 2024, 8,024 wildfires had burned 1,050,012 ...

A plume of smoke was rising above Fallbrook Friday east of military base Camp Pendleton. Cal Fire San Diego was responding to a vegetation fire near Overland Trail and Mission Road north of state ...

Cal Fire crews are responding to a brush fire that broke out Friday morning in Fallbrook. The fire — referred to as the ...

As windy conditions persist in San Diego County, San Diego Gas & Electric has cut power off for more than 6,700 customers Friday morning amid the elevated fire risk for the area. Most of the outages ...

When the air is warm and dry, transpiration and evaporation also suck water out of the plants and soil. That leaves dry ...

Amid an already dry winter season, the first Santa Ana wind event of 2025 is elevating fire danger this week and threatening ...

The Palisades Fire, the most destructive wildfire in Los Angeles history, continued to spread with limited containment on Friday. According to a Cal Fire update issued ...