Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

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

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

For the first time in over a decade, state officials will be updating fire maps for Southern California. This includes ...

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

For the first time in at least 14 years, state officials will release updated fire maps for Southern California on Monday, ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) has updated its classification of areas that are more at ...

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the ...

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

See where your home falls on the new Cal Fire maps for Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange counties.

The Santa Ana winds occur when there is high pressure to the east, in the Great Basin, and a low-pressure system off the coast. Air masses move from high pressure to low pressure, and the more extreme ...

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 ...