Clouds start to build in the early afternoon and the air becomes sweet with the promise of rain. The monsoon season is ...

The most effective measures to prepare for wildfires, Villanueva said, is by creating a “defensible space” around homes. He ...

The warning, delivered at the county fire headquarters in East Los Angeles on Friday, serves as a stark reminder of how ...

The Santa Ana winds are dry, powerful winds that blow down the mountains toward the Southern California coast. The region sees about 10 Santa Ana wind events a year on average, typically occurring ...

Santa Ana winds can cause fires to spread quickly, and extreme drought conditions mean the presence of dry fuels. A stock photo of a helicopter fighting a wildfire. Toa55/Getty What to Know ...

Forecasters are expecting another Santa Ana wind event this week, threatening to worsen fires and walk back recent containment progress of the Los Angeles wildfires. AccuWeather meteorologists and ...

Strong, damaging Santa Ana winds are expected to bring extreme wildfire danger to Southern California Monday into Tuesday as the landscape remains dangerously starved of rain, and as firefighters ...

The Santa Ana winds that fanned the fires devastating Southern California were forecast to return as firefighters scrambled to douse the deadly blazes that have destroyed more than 10,000 homes ...