A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, ...

To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame length and ember-dispersion distances, terrain and weather patterns are ...

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm ... Cal Fire's new fire risk maps make plain the extent of fire danger in the Bay Area. The origin of the maps date back ...

Local leaders say the Cal Fire publication could affect the enforcement of state laws on defensible space and real estate.

The new maps add 1.4 million acres of land statewide into higher fire severity categories, accompanied by stricter building and local planning code requirements for property owners. To view the ...

AUBURN – There are new changes to wildfire danger zones in California. Cal Fire is increasing ... increase compared to the last time the Cal Fire maps were updated in 2011.

The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews ... to the California Association of Counties, it is unlikely that home insurance providers would use the maps as a ...

Several locations in the Bay Area are considered very high fire hazard severity zones, according to new maps released this week by the Office of the State Fire Marshal.

Submit a letter to the editor. The state says it is concerned with fire danger. Their solution is a fire map so that the ...

Areas of Orinda, Richmond, Moraga, San Pablo, Lafayette, Antioch, Clayton, El Cerrito, Brentwood, Danville, Concord, and ...