A midcentury home in Los Angeles, a house with ocean views in Bodega Bay and a contemporary home in Palm Desert.

The house that Michael Kovac built is the only one on his street still standing after a huge fire raced through his Los Angeles neighborhood. US architect Michael Kovac stands outside his house, which ...

Since the historic wildfires, some officials have suggested that every rebuilt home have fire-resistant materials and fire ...

The Bel-Air fire became known as the “the big one,” the event that forced everyone in Los Angeles to reckon ... on how so many L.A. homes came to be built on land so vulnerable to fire and ...

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, ...

destroying more than 9,400 homes and buildings, the community had already been debating a fateful question: are there places too risky for new housing to be built? Like so many communities ...