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

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

WE’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW ANY OF THESE NEW UPDATES FROM CAL FIRE. AND WHEN NEW MAPS FOR A REGION ARE P A recent executive order by California Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to ramp up fire safety in ...

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 ...

Cities with the most hazardous acres of very high fire hazard include Moorpark, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks, and the "very high" hazard acreage in Ojai more than tripled. Unincorporated land in ...

Follow wildfire updates in North and South Carolina, where blazes erupted over the weekend. The largest stemmed from a forest ...

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 ...

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"California’s resilience means we will keep updating our standards in the most fire-prone areas." The maps are divided into Fire Hazard Severity Zones—moderate, High, or Very High—and ...

The forest service was continuously updating an interactive map to chart the locations and basic characteristics of each fire, marking active incidents in red and reported incidents in green.