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

Weeks after deadly fires swept through Los Angeles County, the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California’s largest utilities to ...

These maps are intended to “drive local planning decisions, not insurance decisions,” according to a California Department of Insurance document. “For many years, insurance companies have been using ...

Despite a five-fold increase in state-designated danger zones, private carriers use their own risk templates for determining ...

In the over four decades the California Department of Forestry ... a fire and that fire’s potential intensity. The maps do not reflect fire risk: the chance of a fire destroying or severely ...

For the first time since 2011—and in the wake of January’s historically destructive Los Angeles infernos—Cal Fire has updated its Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for areas of the state that are served ...

Updated wildfire hazard maps from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) will not affect ...

Compared to the prior maps, the hazard areas encroach roughly half ... “I do think that people in the state of California, especially now, are aware of fire risk,” said Matthew Wibbenmeyer, an ...

For the first time ever, California fire officials have identified the City of Santa Maria as having the potential risk of a ...

A five-fold expansion of wildfire hazard zones across Southern California raised homeowner concerns ... “The Cal Fire maps are not what we use to look at our risk,” said Janet Ruiz, Western U.S.

Also see: Southern California fire danger zones increase ... but don’t include local or homeowner efforts to reduce fire risk. The maps show moderate, high and very-high fire hazards in areas ...