The new maps add 1.4 million acres of land statewide into higher fire severity categories, accompanied by stricter building ...

With streaks of yellow, orange and red, Cal Fire’s new fire risk maps make plain the extent of fire danger in the Bay Area.

California officials on Monday released another set of county maps rating the likelihood and severity of wildfires as part of an executive order by Gov. Gavin Newsom signed earlier this month.

The map reveals some areas entered the "very high risk" category. That means homeowners in those zones will now have to ...

Researchers use models that combine how weather, topography and types of vegetation raise the risk that a fire will grow ...

Cal Fire's new maps show Auburn increased its very high severity zone acreage to 800 this year compared to 326 acres a decade ago.

When wildfire ripped through Altadena, Cal Fire had maps that showed most of the city was not at a very high fire hazard risk, yet 17 people died and more than 9,000 structures were destroyed in that ...

Cal Fire told fire safety advocates that it now plans to update the maps roughly every five years. This first stage of a rollout comes shortly after Cal Fire acknowledged weaknesses in its model ...

Cal Fire is increasing areas across the state it now deems ... started right below and there's no time to respond," Egli said. "We have our go bag, always ready to go." Cal Fire's new maps show ...

“That fire,” he said, “could have gone to Lake Merritt if the winds would have persisted.” Straight through Oakland. Thirty-three years later, Sapsis, who now ... Cal Fire’s maps only ...

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection this week released new fire hazard severity zone maps for dozens of ... a red "very high" hazard zone. Now orange and yellow "high ...