Cal Fire’s total base wildfire protection budget has nearly tripled over the past 10 years, from $1.1 billion in 2014‑15 to $3 billion in 2023‑24.

Updating maps of Southern California show where wildfires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, are burning across Los Angeles.

Just over $100 million was cut from California's wildfire and forest resilience fund in the latest budget, though total spending has grown sharply since 2014.

House Speaker Mike Johnson has maintained that any relief aid for California and Los Angeles is likely to require policy review first.

Evacuation orders were initially issued for one zone, but several more were quickly ordered to flee as firefighters worked to contain the blaze.

Here’s a basic glossary to terms used to describe wildland fires, according to the National Wildfire Coordinating Group: Containment, normally expressed as a percentage, indicates how much of the fire has been enclosed by a control line. A wildfire with 25% containment means control lines have been completed around 25% of the fire’s perimeter.

Tallying each property’s condition, the assessments can be a family’s first official word on whether their home—and neighborhood—was destroyed.

California is years behind in implementing a 2020 law aiming to make it harder for homes to burn during a wildfire.

A fast-moving wildfire in Southern California has so far burned through more than 1,000 acres on Tuesday, Jan. 7. and has prompted widespread evacuations around the coastal neighborhood of the Pacific Palisades,

Southern Californians are bracing for gusty winds and a heightened risk of wildfires less than two weeks after deadly blazes that have killed at least 27 people and ravaged thousands of homes broke out.

Some residents began to assess the damage to their homes as firefighters appeared to turn a corner in containing the blazes. But officials warned there would be much work to be done.