While fires can happen pretty much anywhere, it's neighborhoods like those in the Oakland Hills that are especially at risk. Fire officials are urging people to take precautions now.

As Wildfire Awareness Month begins, Mercury Insurance outlines how changing wildfire behavior is reshaping home protection and what homeowners should do differently today While defensible space has ...

A fire management specialist with the U.S. Wildland Fire Service details early fire season restrictions in Washington and explains how to create defensible space to protect your homes. Velvet and ...

PARADISE — Officials from Cal Fire and other organizations finished off Wildfire Preparedness Week in Paradise Friday, emphasizing home hardening and defensible space as important ways to keep homes ...

Saratoga passed new rules for tree removal last month to better protect homes and neighborhoods from wildfire risk. Homeowners throughout the city can remove trees planted within 5 feet of their home ...

The San Lorenzo Valley Water District will begin a project to create defensible space around its infrastructure sites to safeguard water systems from wildfire damage, starting Oct. 27. The San Lorenzo ...