Austin City Council is set to vote Thursday on an expanded wildfire risk map that some local industry groups have opposed due ...

More than half of habitable land in Austin is now considered at risk of being damaged in a wildfire. That’s up from just under 40% nearly a decade ago.

That’s because it would expand the risk map to include developments around small wildland areas, which are not currently included, according to a statement from the Austin Fire Department.

In August, CoreLogic, a research company that does risk analysis for the real ... fire experts are trying to overlay the same fire on a map of West Austin to determine the number of homes and ...