A minor, 3.7-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey ...

The Madre Fire, now the largest wildfire in California this year, expanded to 79,630 acres by Saturday, July 5, prompting ...

The Lake Fire burning near Victorville stalled overnight, though Cal Fire predicts weather will make fighting the blaze ...

Ming Pan is a senior research hydrologist at the University of California, San Diego. Dry conditions across Southern California set the stage for a series of deadly wind-driven wildfires that ...

On June 16, the Chaney Trail Corridor Project posted a call to its supporters on Instagram, warning that “public land ...

The powerful winds fueling the wildfires are known as the Santa Ana winds, which flow out of the Great Basin in Nevada and Utah toward the Southern California coast.

This map shows some of the bigger rain totals from Tropical Storm Hilary in various Southern California cities during the 48 hours, starting Saturday, Aug. 19 at 8 a.m.

Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and natural hazard real estate disclosures at the time of sale.

These Maps Show Just How Dry Southern California Is Right Now In early January, soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2 percent of historical records.

The National Weather Service has warned of a life-threatening and destructive windstorm set to affect some of Southern California.

Maps of the Southern California wildfires show their size, danger and location.

This map shows some of the bigger rain totals from Tropical Storm Hilary in various Southern California cities during the 48 hours, starting Saturday, Aug. 19 at 8 a.m.