After a wildfire, the danger continues, especially during torrential rain that can set off fast-moving landslides known as debris flows. By Amy Graff Amy Graff is a San Francisco-based reporter on The ...

Looking down the Leavens Creek watershed, where a fatal debris flow event occurred following the Eagle Creek Fire. Notice the steep, rocky channels and waterfalls that debris flows travel down. In the ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Debris supplied by rockfall and related slope processes is a key factor controlling the frequency and magnitude of debris flows. However, estimating the amount of debris supplied over ...

The Mountain Fire area faces new hazards from winter storms that could make nearby roads impassable or clog culverts and drains with burned debris. During intense rainfall, burned slopes become ...

WASHINGTON - A debris flow over the weekend has temporarily closed Westside Road, according to a social media post from Mount Rainier National Park. "The [debris flow] event was triggered by an ...

Mickelson is walking through the Bolt Creek burn scar. The fire started in September of 2022 and burned just shy of 15,000 acres north of Highway 2 in Washington, about halfway between Seattle and ...

Storms now pounding Southern California are raising the specter of more danger for residents—debris flows in areas already reeling from devastating fires. Debris flows are like mudslides, except much ...

As devastating wildfires continue to ravage the Los Angeles metropolitan region, local officials are warning of potential floods, landslides and toxic debris flows in the weeks and months ahead. “The ...