Maps that more than double the local area included in fire hazard severity zones are expected to take effect in July for Ventura County property owners. The maps may mean some local homeowners ...

California’s wildfire season is now nearly a year-round danger, as was seen by the devastating, fast-moving fires that swept through the Los Angeles area in January. Fueled by the effects of ...

Cal Fire has released new maps that identify fire-prone areas in California, and San Luis Obispo County saw an 862% increase in the number of acres included since 2011. This is large part because ...

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.

For latest updates, see the Genasys Protect map or the emergency website of Inyo County or Mono County. The wildfire — which some agencies called the Laws Fire — was reported around 2 p.m ...

Cal Fire reported this week in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire agency jurisdiction. According to Cal Fire data, San Diego County has 157,338 acres with “very high ...

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- For the first time in 14 years, California's fire hazard severity zone maps have been updated by the state fire marshal. Based on fire history and conditions of ...

More than 3.5 million additional acres across Southern California, including Los Angeles County, have been designated as fire hazard zones under updated maps released on Monday by the California ...

The maps, which represent the most significant update in more than a decade, expand "very high" fire hazard zones by 35 percent across local fire jurisdictions, increasing from 860,000 acres to ...

Cal Fire has released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the county. The surveys use various criteria to identify wildfire hazard areas and rank them on a three-tiered scale. The maps ...

The maps are part of a 40-year-old program in which the state Forestry and Fire Protection Department, or Cal Fire, periodically documents areas that are most prone to having a wildfire within the ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than ...