Just a month after she bought her red-doored dream home, Ana Wold’s little gray Boulder Creek house burned to the ground in the 2020 Santa Cruz Mountains firestorm. Now she’s walking away from a ...

Areas scarred by the Eaton Fire are at “high to very high risk” of debris flows this week. How do they happen? What is being ...

The Dotts fire started burning near Dotts Park, north of Deckers, at around 10:42 a.m. the Elk Creek Fire Department said.

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To reduce wildfire intensity in the bone-dry area, managed grazing is proposed to prevent the takeover of annual grass thatch and other fine fuels. Figuring out the "cow days," a measure of how long a ...

USA TODAY analysis finds 3.3 million Americans live in areas with "very high" wildfire risk and 14.8 million more at “relatively high” risk.

"The CZU fires destroyed about 700 homes in Santa Cruz County. Of those, 127 residences have been rebuilt and another 134 are ...