CalFire’s Fire and Resource Assessment Program has launched the new California Vegetation Burn Severity Online Viewer, an ...

CalFire released the last of its updated fire hazard severity maps on Monday, showing a 3.5 million acre expansion of Southern California’s zones. The largest increases were in the Antelope Valley and ...

Cal Fire added more than 360,000 acres in coastal Northern California to its fire hazard zones where heightened fire safety regulations will apply. New Southern California maps come out March 24.

The high and very high hazard zones — in orange and red on the CalFire maps — cover 3,626 square miles for California. That’s home to about 3.7 million people, CalMatters reported.

Over the next three months, fire departments will be reviewing and incorporating these changes from Cal Fire through local ordinances. Find your address on the interactive fire hazard zone map here.

On Monday, officials with CalFire will release updated fire maps for Southern California to show where wildfires are most likely to happen in the next 30 to 50 years.

Roughly every decade, CalFire releases a new map that outlines exactly which areas of California are within fire hazard zones: pieces of property that, due to a mix of fuel, terrain and weather ...

Cal Fire rolled out phase one of its updated fire hazard severity maps two weeks ago. On Monday, it released phase two, which included the Bay Area and the entire Northern California coast.