The Los Angeles wildfires recently showed people around the world that celebrity or not, no one is safe from fire.

With wildfires increasing year after year, more homeowners are thinking about the future of their houses — and whether they have a future at all as the climate rapidly changes.

More than 10,000 houses burned in Los Angeles. But fire-resistant design helped keep some standing even on blocks where the ...

Many Californians thought wildfires couldn’t reach deep into their cities. But the Los Angeles fires showed how older homes ...

Made from Portland cement, silica, and wood fiber, like vinyl fiber cement ... long as 100 years if properly maintained. Stucco is an old-school siding choice made by combining cement with sand ...

There are many materials used in the making of siding, but the five that are most commonly used are wood, metal, vinyl (which you can paint), stucco, and fiber cement. Each material has its ...

Building experts tell Action News there are roughly 50 ways a fire can burn a house, and eliminating half or more can go a ...

"Basically everything had asbestos in it," says architect Aleksandra Popovska—but that was the first of many pricey surprises ...

Building homes in this region involves understanding the effects of humidity and rain on structures and incorporating features th ...

There’s also consensus, meanwhile, about problematic carbon dioxide, with six in 10 Americans supporting a carbon-neutral goal for the U.S. in 25 years. Here, too—beyond the more obvious ...