Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

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

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire, has been releasing these maps in installments over the last six weeks, beginning with counties in the state’s far north and ending ...

A moderately strong, 5.2-magnitude earthquake struck in Southern California on Monday, according to the United States ...

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the ...

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 Delaware.

Utility maps of wildfire risk need updating, says the California Public Advocate—and utilities agree. State regulators voted ...

ANGELES TO HELP WITH WILDFIRE RELIEF, AND THIS ALL COMES AS PHASE FOUR OF THE STATE’S FIRE HAZARD SEVERITY ZONES HAS NOW BEEN RELEASED. THIS IS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SO WE’RE KIND OF ZOOMING ...

What happened last week in California’s most populous county and its largest city exemplifies the intergovernmental tensions ...

reflect the realities firefighters already know to be true - climate change is increasing the fire hazards across California. With the new maps, cities and counties can now set new home hardening ...

The hazardous areas, marked in an ominous bright red on Cal Fire's maps, saw the most growth in the Northern California counties of Mendocino, Amador, Lake, Mono and Lassen compared to the the ...

According to Cal Fire data, San Diego County has 157,338 acres with “very high” fire hazard, the highest level of hazard. In 2011, that figure was more than 180,700 acres.