In Sausalito, fire risk now extends nearly to the shoreline, according to Cal Fire’s map. The city has about 702 acres in one of the three fire hazard severity zones, whereas it had none listed ...

The long-awaited investigation was released Wednesday by the Oregon Department of Forestry. Critics of the report disputed ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) recently released new fire hazard severity zone maps for ...

"Back in 2007, we only mapped when there was very high," said Jim McDougald, assistant deputy director with Cal Fire's Community Wildfire Mitigation Program. "Now, we are required to map when ...

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity maps show dramatic increases in some areas of Sonoma and Napa counties ...

That compares with one of 35 cities seeing such a decrease for Cal Fire’s inland Northern California map released two weeks ago.

The map reveals some areas entered the "Very High" risk category. That means homeowners in those zones will now have to follow more fire-prepared guidelines set by Cal Fire, such as ensuring ...

20, 2020. The Observatory narrowly escaped ... Fire hazard severity map for Cupertino (courtesy of Cal Fire) Morgan Hill lost area considered very high hazard — the acreage dropped to 638 ...