California’s Public Advocate has been pressing for new utility fire maps since 2023. Utilities are on board — but regulators ...

Still, the new maps show more areas of in the city of Santa Barbara have been dubbed as hazardous, the city said in a ...

For the first time in at least 14 years, state officials will release updated fire maps for Southern California on Monday, March 24, showing where wildfires are most likely to occur within the next ...

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 ...

San Bernardino and San Diego counties and show which areas are more susceptible to wildfires. These released maps are the final phase in a rollout of updated maps for California. More than 800,000 ...

Gavin Newsom last month, following the destructive Palisades and Eaton fires in January. The updated maps show that across Southern California, "very high fire hazard" zones grew 26% since 2011 ...

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

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

Coins and pieces of paper from a yellow legal pad were found near three Southern California fires that Justin Wayne Halstenberg is accused of setting.

the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California’s largest utilities to update maps showing high fire threat areas.

The maps show moderate, high and very-high fire hazards in areas protected by city and county ... Similar concerns have surfaced in California, said Karen Collins, a vice president with the American ...