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

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

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

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

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

Cal Fire added at least 2.8 million Californians to fire hazard zones. Here's how to check which zone you're in and what that ...

Cal Fire had already released fire maps for Northern and Central California this year. The new 2025 maps update the previous 2007-2011 models, with zone rankings based on vegetation, terrain ...

All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of Delaware.

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

up 35% from 860,000 in the 2011 maps, according to Cal Fire numbers. The combined high and very-high fire zones, where construction must comply with stiffer building codes — reached 2.3 million ...

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 ...