Leading into the much-anticipated release of the state’s mapping of high fire severity zones, Menlo Park and Atherton fire, ...

Cal Fire released its new fire hazard severity maps, including for Sacramento, detailing which areas are at high risk of ...

Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fire hazard severity zones. New maps for Southern ...

The new fire hazard severity zone maps issued by Cal Fire this week are part of a two-month statewide rollout.

As a late-winter storm brings rain to Southern California, evacuation warnings have been issued in recent wildfire burn areas.

State officials have released a third batch of maps showing fire hazards in California's Bay Area and the state's northern ...

A storm has dropped a significant amount of rain across Southern California, triggering the risk of mudslides, flooding and debris flows in recent burn scar areas.

The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews ... to the California Association of Counties, it is unlikely that home insurance providers would use the maps as a ...

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THOSE NEW CAL FIRE MAPS SHOW YOLO COUNTY HAS NEARLY 40,000 NEW ACRES ADDED TO THE RISK AREA, AND STANISLAUS COUNTY MORE THAN 60,000 ACRES. THESE ACRES WERE NOT CONSIDERED HIGH RISK BA California ...

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations ...

(File photo courtesy of Cal Fire) Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate more than 2.3 million acres of local land in California as facing “high” or ...