The Kamas City Council is poised to create a wildland urban interface code to comply with a new state law intended to help fortify homes against wildfires.

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The Wildland-Urban Interface Ordinance applies to areas with high fire hazard severity zones and one Fire Marshall says he’s most concerned with east Bakersfield. The ...

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Since January 7, wildfires have been devastating the Los Angeles area. In the span of 10 days, several different fires, including the Palisades and Eaton fires, have burned more than 40,000 acres and ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Many homes in Arizona are in the Wildland Urban Interface, a space where homes meet the forest. These areas have a heightened risk, much like communities hit hard by the Los ...

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. Cal Fire ...

There is a lot of discussion about how adding accessory dwelling units (ADUs) to single family homes in the wildland-urban interface will affect fire safety in those neighborhoods. There is growing ...

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 ...