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 ...

As climate change warms the planet, wildfires have become so unpredictable and extreme that new words were invented: firenado, gigafire, fire siege — even fire pandemic. California has 78 more annual ...

According to Cal Fire, firefighters first received a call about the fire in the area of Overland Trail and South Mission Road at 9:55 a.m.

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

Firefighters made significant gains Thursday at slowing the spread of the major fires, but containment remained far out of reach.

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 ...

The Palisades, Eaton, Hurst, Lidia and Kenneth fires are burning in Southern California, destroying more than 10,000 structures. Here are the latest updates.

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 ...

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