City councilmembers in Berkeley, California, are considering law to ban most plants within five feet of houses in ...

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 highest hazard zone by 26%.

Still, the new maps show more areas of in the city of Santa Barbara have been dubbed as hazardous, the city said in a ...

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

According to Cal Fire data, San Diego County has 157,338 acres with “very high” fire hazard, the highest level of hazard. In 2011, that figure was more than 180,700 acres.

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

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

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials on Monday unveiled updated fire hazard maps for the High Desert and other portions of Southern California The new Cal Fire rankings ...

If the maps are based on mostly immutable characteristics, why have the hazard areas exploded across California since they were last drawn up in 2011? Three reasons, said Berlant. The first is climate ...

Cal Fire added at least 2.8 million Californians into its Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The zones, referenced in over 100 sections of code and regulation, are tied to home hardening, defensible ...

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