Members of Nevada’s fire-service elite – fire marshals, firefighters and community organizers – met with citizens of Nevada’s high- and extreme-fire-hazard communities Thursday, September 18 and ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Front Range wildfire experts told Denver7 that a critical part of battling wildfires is protecting the wildland-urban interface.

As California's population boomed—from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today—the number of people living in fire-prone ...

Santa Rosa leaders approved updates to the city’s fire hazard areas over objections from some residents who raised questions about the implications for their properties.

Fire season” might conjure images of crown fires jumping through canopies of Ponderosa pines in the Rockies or palm trees of Southern California desperately pointing toward the Pacific while Santa Ana ...

Sacramento, California – On February 26, 2025, the State of California adopted the 2024 International Wildland-Urban Interface Code® (IWUIC®) as the basis for Title 24, Part 7, 2025 California ...

Have you ever heard the term WUI and wondered what it means? The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) refers to areas where human-made structures and infrastructure; homes, neighborhoods, and roads are ...

Saratoga City Council approved a new map that extends the boundary of the Wildland Urban Interface, or WUI, to encapsulate Cal Fire’s changes to the city’s Fire Hazard Severity Zone map. Related ...

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 such ...

The smoke from fires that blaze through the wildland-urban interface (WUI) has far greater health impacts than smoke from wildfires in remote areas, new research finds. The study, published this week ...

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