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

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 ...

The end-result is stark: 6.8 million acres of fire hazard zones running up and down California. "The sheer number of more cities and areas that are now being designated in a fire hazard severity ...

New hazard designations increase the number of homes that must comply with wildfire building codes during reconstruction.

The number of acres in the top two fire zones that must comply with stiffer, fire-safe building codes increased 76% in Southern California areas protected by local firefighters, new state hazard ...