Cal Fire and San Bernardino County Fire officials conducting Pioneertown neighborhood site visits last Fall with local residents to assess wildfir

Los Angeles is in the midst of battling multiple wildfires. FOX Business takes a look at some of America's most costly wildfires.

It’s a long way from LA to Chicago, but the world is small if you have friends or relatives in Southern California, or if you simply have empathy for people under duress.

The LA wildfires already have an estimated $135-$150 billion dollar loss, with an estimated 12,000 structures destroyed and 38,690 acres burned.

In Oregon, similarly wind-driven fires in 2020 prompted new work on community-wide wildfire mitigation efforts. McEvoy was involved in a state-wide wildfire risk mapping released this month, which eventually will be the basis for new codes in home and property risk mitigation in some areas.

The site’s fourth blaze in five years destroyed most of a 300-MW battery array owned by Vistra Energy and should serve as a “wake-up call” for the industry, local officials said.

Testing and exercising the fire hydrants in Nevada City on a regular basis was put on hold during the drought in recent years, according to Bryan McAlister, Nevada City Engineer.

As deadly wildfires devastated a wide area of Los Angeles in early 2025, social media posts claimed that directed energy weapons ignited the blazes -- a conspiracy theory shared around similar disasters.

The devastation of the Los Angeles wildfires has resonated far beyond Southern California, as local officials and residents across the United States have watched the flames, started among dry vegetation,

The crisis underscores efforts to look beyond the forests and public lands that have been the traditional focus of wildfire risk to more community-based mitigation efforts involving homeowners, private landowners,

Wildfires like the Los Angeles blazes destroy so much, but they often spare some evidence of the cause of their ignition

Fire safety experts warn that you may have as little as two minutes to escape a burning home. It’s not often that one imagines their family gathering their most important belongings, grabbing their go-bags,