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

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

The Riverside City Council passed an ordinance requiring 100 feet of defensible space around buildings in high-risk fire ...

What do the maps show? The Office of the State Fire Marshal found that the land area considered to have "very high" fire hazard severity jumped more than 30% since the last assessment in 2011.

CAL Fire has been releasing the results of the various areas of the state over recent weeks, with the fourth and final ...

Daniel Berlant, California's State Fire Marshal, reported a significant increase ... he said. The new maps, which have been in development for years, now include city jurisdictions in addition ...

Weeks later, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order requiring the Office of the State Fire Marshal to release the updated maps, expected to add more than a million acres into the highest ...

South Lake Tahoe Fire Rescue (SLTFR) is looking for your input regarding the Local Responsibility Area Fire Hazard Severity ...