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

Despite leaving some high-fire areas off the map, regulators say the plan is designed specifically to benefit suburban homeowners in the Bay Area and beyond with the least access to insurance — even ...

The wildfire — which some agencies called the Laws Fire — was reported Sunday afternoon near the highway bridge over the ...

New state fire maps have moved many Ross residents into a greater wildfire hazard zone. The Town Council voted unanimously on Thursday to adopt an ordinance designating the fire hazard severity zones.

While most of California is prone to wildfires, the South Bay is seeing a significant increase in hazardous areas compared to others. Out of all the Bay Area cities, San Jose saw the largest increase ...

As part of a new plan to stabilize California’s home insurance crisis, state regulators have updated a map of fire-risk areas where insurers will soon be expected to write more policies.

RELATED: New Bay Area fire-hazard maps: Is your city among those seeing striking increases? A five-fold expansion of wildfire hazard zones across Southern California raised homeowner concerns that ...

Overall, the Bay Area saw a slight drop in high fire hazard zone acres compared to the prior maps. However, two counties saw a large increase - Napa and Sonoma. Napa had the largest increase ...

EMPIRE, MI -- Four prescribed fires are planned this spring within Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore. The National Park ...