SF News PG&E Warns of Possible Power Shutoffs For Parts of Five Bay Area Counties Starting Thursday With the announcement of a Red Flag Warning and forecast of a significant Diablo wind event, we now get the inevitable follow-up announcement from PG&E about pre-emptive power shutoffs.
SF News Red Flag Warning Issued For Bay Area Starting Thursday, and Yes, San Francisco Is Included As expected following Monday's Fire Weather Watch, the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning covering most of the Bay Area, San Francisco included, starting Thursday night.
SF News Three More Wildfires Broke Out Monday In Northern California; Sonoma's Point Fire Now 40% Contained It's been a wild few days for firefighters across California and in southern New Mexico, where at least a dozen wildfires have broken out, some of them fast-growing, fueled by dry conditions and high winds.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Below Average Wildfire Risk Predicted For at Least a Couple Months Forecasters say June and July should see below average wildfire risk, but then things could change; a man was fatally shot in West Oakland Tuesday morning; and Elon Musk is getting sued by Tesla shareholders over a 2022 stock dump.
SF News Red-Flag Warning Weekend Included Brush Fire In Benecia, Several Barns Destroyed In Petaluma Blaze It was not a completely quiet weekend for the North Bay during this past weekend's Red Flag Warning, but the reported fires were fairly quickly contained.
SF News [Update] Red Flag Warning Issued for North Bay Mountains, Parts of East Bay The National Weather Service (NWS) upgraded its Fire Weather Watch for the North Bay Mountains and the East Bay hills and valleys to a Red Flag Warning on Saturday night, beginning 3 a.m. Sunday and expected to last until 5 p.m. on Tuesday, amid poor humidity levels and strong winds.
SF News Dixie Fire Approaches Camp Fire Burn Scar With Over 18,000 Acres Burned; Smoke Clouds Blanketing Nearby Skies The Dixie Fire has exploded over the weekend with only 15% of the fire contained as it nears the Camp Fire burn scar in Butte County; there’s also now a huge amount of smoke in the air.
SF News We Are In For an Especially Sh**ty Fire Season, and It's Already Begun In terms of wildfires in Northern California this year, it's not a matter of if but a matter of when, where, and how terrible. That's according to new maps showing the extreme fire potential taking shape with dry fuels across the region.
SF News This Infographic From the National Weather Service Shows Just How Bad the Bay Area Drought Is A picture is worth a thousand words. And pictures that include statistics could fill an entire novel.
SF News Red Flag Warning for North and East Bay Hills Extended to Tuesday Night Initially expected to end Monday at 6 p.m., the National Weather Service (NWS) has extended its Red Flag Warning for parts of the Bay Area another 24 hours.
SF News [Update] Second December Red Flag Warning Looking Less Likely For Wednesday Frustratingly, the Bay Area is still not out of the woods for this fire season, and a second rare December Red Flag Warning could come with a second wind event in the middle of this week.
SF News A Rare December Red Flag Warning Possible For Parts of Bay Area Sunday Gusty winds and persistently dry conditions are potentially going to create fire danger for parts of the Bay Area between Sunday and Monday, which is the last thing that anyone in fire-prone areas wants to hear after an exhausting fire season.
SF News Red Flag Warning Looking Likely For Parts of the Bay Area Saturday Night as More Dangerous Winds Take Shape Residents of the hill country in Sonoma and Napa counties and out in the East Bay should brace themselves for more fire weather and possible power shutoffs this weekend as another heatwave shapes up and more Diablo winds are being forecast.
SF News Mid-February Wildfire Spreads to 120 Acres In Tahoe National Forest, Concerning Fire Experts The Antelope Fire broke out Monday along Highway 49 in Sierra County, north of Sierraville in Tahoe National Forest, and it quickly spread to 120 acres before firefighters could contain it.
SF News Lovely Rainless Early Spring Weather Could Mean Fire Danger Later If you'd like to go sip your rosé and simply enjoy this unseasonably warm February weather, be our guest. But otherwise, you can read about the downside and enjoy it a little bit less.
SF News Fire Season Anxieties Rise With Latest National Forecast Showing NorCal Fire Danger Rising While the relatively low number of wildfires across Northern California in July may seem like a good thing, a forecast from the National Interagency Fire Center suggests the opposite.
SF News Wildfire Season Already Proving Costly and Stressful As NorCal Fires Begin To Arrive Contra Costa County has been deemed one of the high-risk “hot zones” in the state for wildfires, while thrice-burnt Lake County had two new wildfires just this past weekend, leaving everyone on edge.
SF News NPS Touts New Fire Rings As Ocean Beach Bonfire Season Begins "Things could be worse" is one of those sayings we've all been relying on more than usual lately, and it's certainly true regarding the National Park Service's new restrictions on bonfires at Ocean
SF News Tassajara Fire Near Carmel Burns Over 1,000 Acres; Valley Fire Now 70 Percent Contained Firefighters working over the weekend brought the Valley Fire further under control, to 70 percent containment, after it has now burned an area of 75,881 acres (119 square miles) in Lake, Sonoma,
SF News Make No Mistake, California, This Fire Season Is Likely To Be Terrible Due to the drought, fire season is starting early in California, and Cal Fire is already warning of dry, fire friendly conditions that have prompted them to hire extra firefighters ahead of what's
SF News Two New Wildfires Sparked Near Yosemite And Oregon Border Among the 12 major wildfires currently burning across the state, two fresh ones were sparked in the last two days: the Courtney Fire, burning not far from the recent Junction Fire near Oakhurst
SF News Update On The El Portal Fire, Now 96 Percent Contained Thankfully, the El Portal Fire, which has been burning over a week at the western edge of Yosemite National Park and in Stanislaus National Forest, is now 96 percent contained after burning 4,
SF News Yosemite Fire Grows to 2,700 Acres, Threatens Giant Sequoias This year's sure-to-be-dramatic fire season rages on with our next main event, the El Portal Fire at the western edge of Yosemite National Park and in Stanislaus National Forest. It began Saturday and
SF News Scene From a Valencia Street Apartment Fire Eeps! SFist received word this morning that Valencia Street fell victim to yet another apartment fire. Sigh. Reader Jeff Cleary tells us: Aye, there was an apartment fire this morning on Valencia street,
