For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity maps show dramatic increases in some areas of Sonoma and Napa counties and ...

Fire hazard has grown in Los Angeles County over the past decade, according to new state maps. What do the maps show? The Office of the State Fire Marshal found that the land area considered to have ...

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - Cal Fire released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the state's counties today, using various criteria to identify wildfire hazard areas and ranking them on a ...

Cal Fire released new fire hazard severity maps for coastal Northern California on Monday as part of a two-month rollout process that ends with Southern California on March 24. The new maps include ...

This year, San Luis Obispo saw a massive expansion of the zones. In the new map, 8,782 parcels were included in one of the three zones, with 2,845 parcels in a “very high” zone, San Luis Obispo City ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Two months after deadly wildfires razed ...

Firefighters from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection battle the Sugar fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex fire, in Doyle, Calif., in 2021. (Noah Berger / Associated Press) The ...

Two months after the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history, Cal Fire has released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the county. The surveys use various criteria to identify ...

The proposed maps are set to take effect in July. The maps classify areas into moderate, high and very high hazard severity zones. Maps that more than double the local area included in fire hazard ...