The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.

Warnings about flooding and high rivers have been issued in California’s Central Valley, including one evacuation order. The map above shows the evacuation order in red, evacuation warnings in ...

Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fire hazard severity zones. New maps for Southern California come out March 24.

California's Central Valley—one of the nation's most critical agricultural regions and home to over 1.3 million people—is prone to flooding. Mapping the extent of winter floods has been ...

California Map Shows Where Land Is Sinking Fastest. Published Feb 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM EST. By . ... The fast-sinking land in the state's Central Valley (up to 8 inches per year) ...

A map of California is both beautiful and confounding. And that’s when we realized how challenging this would truly be: As soon as we introduced the project to the SFGATE newsroom — which has ...

California's first floodgate opens in Stockton 02:08. STOCKTON – A floodgate that will try to bring thousands of Central Valley homes out of a 100-year flood zone is now complete.