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 ...

San Diego County just got a lot redder. Most cities in the region saw an increase in land labeled a “very high” fire hazard, ...

California is one of the few states with building codes for wildfire protection, because using fire-resistant materials helps ...

See where your home falls in California's new fire hazard zones, the first update to the state's maps in 14 years.

Altadena was a bastion for Black homeownership, but the January wildfires in Los Angeles have put these residents in a precarious situation.

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire officials have released an updated fire hazard severity zone map for communities across the state.

Southern California saw its fire risk zones expand by 3.5 million acres in CalFire’s new hazard maps. Homeowners in those ...

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

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Gary Gerren, the affable fire chief in the ...

Most of them involve around a gallows-humor variation on the theme: “Now, they tell us!” Because, you know, Altadena burned down, and that is that. Miles from the mountains, from the Angeles National ...

What impact those hazards will have on the greater community can vary from minor to catastrophic with vulnerable communities ...