Hot weather and dry conditions have led to “elevated” wildfire threats across the state, the U.S. Drought Monitor said.

A coastal flood advisory is in effect for parts of California after a freak thunderstorm on Sunday killed six people, while ...

California homeowners don’t seem to think much about flood risks with few insured against watery storm damage. My trusty spreadsheet examined flood insurance coverage stats compiled by ...

FROM CALIFORNIA.; The Great Flood Terrible Destruction of Property Comparative Losses and Gains. THE UNPRECEDENTED INUNDATION OF 1862. THE GREAT VALLEYS BECOME LAKES. ... Feb. 27, 1862.

Researchers found evidence of two epic Southern California floods that occurred in the last 600 years and were much larger than the Great Flood of 1862.

Later, its dwellings were wiped out during the Great Flood of 1862, still the largest flood in California’s recorded history. The land has changed ownership many times since then, but hints of ...

Powerful storms drenched California last week ... This historical evidence along with the devastating Great Flood of 1862 inspired the original ARkStorm scenario (AR stands for atmospheric ...

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Most of the flood data that form the basis for the design of California’s dams come from the past century, which was an unusually placid period in the state’s weather. Around three decades ago, ...

Somewhere downstream of Folsom Prison, he said, was a reliable high-water mark for the 1862 flood. Because it was so long ago, water authorities didn’t count it as an official peak of record ...