After years of delay, California is rushing to finalize its rules requiring a five-foot ember-resistant perimeter around homes in areas of the state facing high wildfire risks. The science supporting ...

Late in October, California fire officials made a courtesy call to Los Angeles. The state's proposed Zone Zero regulations that would force homeowners to create an ember-resistant zone around their ...

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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. After years of delays, California’s Zone Zero regulations face a Dec. 31 deadline. But it seems likely state ...

Depending on whom you talk to, the proposed new defensible space rules for "zone zero" will help save homes in very high fire hazard severity zones, or decimate much of Southern California's urban ...

A California state agency won’t meet Governor Gavin Newsom’s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the ...

Forecasters say expected 'worst Christmas storm' is elevating flood risk for a large swath of southwest California.

Late last month, California fire officials made a courtesy call to Los Angeles. The state’s proposed Zone Zero regulations that would force homeowners to create an ember-resistant zone around their ...

The Malibu City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance Monday night officially designating the entire city as a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, making it one of only a handful of California ...

Los Angeles County officials released an interactive map of evacuation warnings as a storm moves through Southern California.