Wildfire

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara unveils a plan to shore up the California insurance market for homeowners. Insurers would return to wildfire zones, but would have an easier path to rate increases.

The Anvil Fire grew significantly over the weekend. It's burning approximately eight miles east of Port Orford near the Oregon coast.

Climate change, technological leaps, panicked insurers, the shifting sense of responsibility: All are powering the still-nascent, but fast-growing industry of preparing homes for wildfires.

In his Facebook videos from the first days after the fire in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui, the look on Nicholas Winfrey’s face was painfully relatable.

Brian Hendrix is the Fire Adapted Communities Coordinator for the city of Ashland, Oregon

Three years after the 2020 fires devastated communities in Southern Oregon, survivors are still recovering from the fires' impact on their homes, their stability and their mental health. A local long-term recovery group is helping support residents who've experienced trauma.

The federal Department of Agriculture combined forces with the nonprofit Sustainable Northwest, to put $5 Million into small woodland rehab projects. Dylan Kruse from SNW.

It's unclear when water and power will be restored in Lahaina, but one family is working hard to ready their home for return anyway.

Stan Thomas is Deputy Director and Mitigation and Recovery Section Division Director at Oregon Emergency of Management about aftermath of Almeda Drive fire.

Building Codes Division is in possession of the pile of money for property owners fire hardening. Development Services Director Ted Zuk oversees the grant applications in Jackson County, Oregon.

Oregon's state housing agency did not say when the homes will be rebuilt, where the funding will come from or when residents will be able to move in.

A new study pins about 25% of the extra risk on human-caused climate change.