Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in jurisdictions where the state will apply stricter fire-safety building requirements.

Only 21% of properties within the Eaton fire perimeter were in Cal Fire’s “very high” fire hazard severity zones. Yet 94% of those properties had “severe” or “extreme” wildfire risk ...

2007-2011 Fire Hazard Severity Zones Once the hazard zone maps are released by the state, local jurisdictions can adopt them or amend them by increasing the hazard level for particular areas.

LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - Cal Fire released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the state's counties today, using various criteria to identify wildfire hazard areas and ranking them on a three ...

Fire hazard severity map for Cupertino (courtesy of Cal Fire) Morgan Hill lost area considered very high hazard — the acreage dropped to 638 in current maps from 1,506 in 2011 — but has 1,493 ...

Cal Fire classified areas into three zones – moderate, high and very high. In Ventura County, acres designated in "very high" hazard zones expanded around 54%.

City Council approved the first reading of an updated fire hazard severity zone map during its June 2 meeting. In Del Mar, 81% of parcels are located within a fire hazard severity ...