The most destructive fires in California history have largely damaged or destroyed homes within the wildland-urban interface, ...

Edward Hadfield lists how lessons learned by the fire service from wind-driven wildfires resulted in innovative approaches ...

Fire safety advocates urge more ignition-resistant construction, but many say the focus should be on fire-proofing entire ...

In the 1990s, about 917,000 homes in the Bay Area were in wildland-urban Interface areas, or WUI. Those areas are on land ...

If you’re told to evacuate, take your emergency kit and go.

But with urban fires — where burning homes and garages are also generating smoke ... Many of these fires occur at the wildland-urban interface (WUI), areas where development and wildland areas overlap ...

“The adoption of the California Wildland-Urban Interface Code as Part 7 of Title ... measures and developing codes that safeguard our homes and neighborhoods,” said Tim Spears, Fire Marshal ...

The wildland-urban interface is the geographic area where ... of fires in Southern California burned an estimated 16,000 homes, businesses, and other structures, with estimates of financial ...

The spread of WUI fires The wildland-urban interface is the geographic area ... fires in Southern California burned an estimated 16,000 homes, businesses, and other structures, with estimates ...