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.

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

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.

Zach LaVine scored a season-high 42 points in his finest game with Sacramento since being acquired in a multi-team trade near ...

Calif. mountain towns are surrounded by public lands. They're already dealing with the fallout of cuts to the U.S. Forest ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...