Sonoma residents now have the opportunity to weigh in on Cal Fire’s statewide update to the Fire Hazard Severity Maps for ...

Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and ...

Southern Oregon’s rugged, rural Rogue Valley region and the towns of Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland abound in the edible and drinkable things that makes everyday life here so enjoyable for ...

Cal Fire has released new fire hazard severity zone maps for public review and comment, including maps for Tulare County, ...

CAL FIRE has rolled out an updated map of the state’s Fire Hazard Severity Zones. This map identifies areas at risk for ...

For the first time in 14 years, California's fire hazard severity zones maps have been updated by the state fire marshal.

More than 800,000 acres of land across these SoCal counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard severity zone ...

See where your home falls in California's new fire hazard zones, the first update to the state's maps in 14 years.

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of Delaware.

According to Cal Fire, the maps are developed using a "science-based and field-tested model that assigns a hazard score based ...

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