Most of those structures were in neighborhoods where the boundaries between human development and natural landscapes blur — ...

Summit brings together firefighting professionals, communities, land managers and others to make actionable plans ...

Just because a development is located within the wildland-urban interface doesn’t mean a fire will occur there, but there may be deadly and destructive consequences if one does. While under 3% ...

Chaparral, Calif.’s fire-adapted ecosystem, often goes overlooked. That is, except for when the high severity firestorms blaze through human communities. Chaparral was quickly lambasted during ...

Applegate Valley Fire District is celebrating the purchase of a "new to them" Type 3 Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) engine.

Wildland and City of Missoula fire crews are serving the community in a different way, raising money for charity through ...

Large-scale fire events are on the rise, from the flames that raged for days across LA, to the widespread devastation seen in ...

Because those codes have not been adopted yet, will not be retroactive, and apply only if a property is both in a high wildfire hazard zone and wildland-urban interface, fire-hardening will only ...

Judson Boomhower, assistant professor in the economics department of UC San Diego, on the wildland urban interface Since 2018, Cal Fire, the state’s fire agency, has inspected all of the ...

A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone that makes up the wildland urban interface. And when fires sweep through it, ...