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Cal Fire’s 2025 fire hazard severity zone map for San Luis Obispo County shows very high hazard areas in red, high hazard areas in orange and moderate hazard areas in yellow.

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In county fire's jurisdiction, the proposed maps include 59,000 parcels in very high hazard areas, up from 49,000 in the current maps. Previously, the state only included "very high" severity ...

If people want to know more about these fire hazard maps, where can they go? The map is available on our website at fire.ca.gov. You can even put in your address and go right to your area.

The new state maps expanded fire hazard zones into Finchbaugh’s neighborhood on the Mesa, especially near Cliff Drive and Flora Vista. The area is now considered moderate to high hazard severity.

The number of acres in San Luis Obispo County, California, that fall into some kind of fire hazard zone increased 862% from 2011, according to Cal Fire’s new map.

Local fire departments will conduct inspections of properties in new high fire hazard zones. As of now, they do around 15,000 of these inspections a year. Tan also said that new construction in high ...