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

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) has released updated fire hazard severity zones for ...

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

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the highest hazard zone by 26%.

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

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

Home and building owners in some parts of northeast Bakersfield will have to take additional fire prevention measures next year following the release of updated wildfire severity maps. The California ...

The updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for Local Responsibility Areas are now available for the public to review and ...

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire ... was miles from the demarcated red zone in CalFire’s prior maps. That’s because the hazard maps are meant to predict the likelihood ...

The Cal Fire maps do little to exacerbate the insurance crisis. In fact, only one regulation that is tied to the hazard zones mentions insurance. Insurance code 10094.2: Insurance companies that ...

Southern California’s five most populous counties saw the size of the very-high fire zone grow to more than 812,000 acres in the latest update, up from just over 644,000 in the previous maps ...

According to Cal Fire data, San Diego County has 157,338 acres with “very high” fire hazard, the highest level of hazard. In 2011, that figure was more than 180,700 acres.