A new wildfire was reported today at 1:49 p.m. in Merced County, California. The wildfire has been burning on private land.

October in California is typically known as a dangerous moment in peak fire season, the month when the state has seen some of ...

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A new study found that climate change has driven a surge of “societally disastrous” wildfires over the last four decades, ...

October 6, 2025 – Mariposa, CA – CAL FIRE Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unit officials announce debris burning is still suspended.

October 3, 2025 - Nearly half of the world’s worst wildfire disasters have occurred in just the past decade, new research from UC Merced’s Fire Resilience Center shows.

“We wanted to move beyond quantifying fire by burned area to fire defined by human impacts,” said John Abatzoglou, a professor of climatology at the University of California Merced and a co-author of ...

A fire at Chevron's El Segundo refinery, the largest on the West Coast, may lead to higher gas prices here in Central California.

Dry lightning sparks dozens of fires as research points to more strikes. Dozens of California fires followed a Labor Day burst of dry lightning. A new analysis projects up to 12 more days a year with ...

But our combined McClatchy Editorial boards representing publications in Sacramento, Modesto, Fresno and San Luis Obispo do ...

The sun was setting in mid-September as Matt Scoralle warmed up a hefty plate of stir fry that a fire captain had passed him.