Experts say recent changes at FEMA, NOAA and the U.S. Forest Service could make a challenging fire season in California even worse. California's 2025 wildfire season was already going to be dangerous.

However, these three agencies are critical components of California's wildfire response capabilities, from forecasting and forest management to firefighting and disaster relief.

On March 22, 2019, Gov. Newsom declared a wildfire state of emergency for California and waived environmental regulations to speed up forest management projects aimed at reducing the fuel load for ...

A NPS fire ranger monitors the Hughes fire on Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2025, in Castaic, California. The fire started north of Castaic and has exploded to more than 5,000 acres in under two hours.

The Legislative Analyst’s Office provided this sobering calculation: CalFire’s total funding for fire protection, resource management and fire prevention has grown from $800 million in 2005-06 ...

California Wildfire Crews Make Headway, but Tough Conditions Expected to Persist The state’s 10 largest fires have burned a total of 2.2 million acres so far this year By ...

Rangeland rancher John Austel was glad to have a wildfire grazing plan in place, but he didn’t want to have to put it to the ...

Eight years after the 2017 Nuns-Tubbs wildfires, killing more than 20 people, Sonoma County Emergency Management Dep.

President Joe Biden’s proposed budget this year includes a $500 million boost to what the White House calls “forest management” and other efforts to reduce wildfire risk. In July, California ...