SACRAMENTO — The California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention, known as Cal Fire, released its new fire hazard maps on Monday, including for Sacramento, detailing which areas have the ...

The maps, covering 15 counties in Central California, are part of Cal Fire’s two-month rollout of new hazard zones for the regions where local city and county fire departments are responsible ...

A helicopter makes a water drop on the Mountain fire, which burned in Santa Paula and Camarillo in November. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) ...

How susceptible is Sacramento County to wildfire? Residents can now check with new Cal Fire fire hazard severity zone maps released Monday to find out. This latest batch of maps detail the ...

Cal Fire has released fire hazard severity zone maps for Imperial, Inyo, Los Angeles, Mono, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and San Diego counties. The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood ...

The Silver Fire, opens new tab, which ignited around 2:11 p.m. PT on Sunday near Highway 6 and Silver Canyon Road in Inyo County, remained at zero percent containment, Cal Fire said. Sign up here.

Cal Fire released updated fire hazard maps that categorize areas in Southern California as moderate, high or very high risk. The new maps, which factor in elements like vegetation and terrain ...

The wildfire, named the Silver fire, began around 2:11 p.m. north of Bishop, a city about halfway between Yosemite National Park and Death Valley National Park, according to Cal Fire, the state ...

"Firefighters have successfully stopped the forward spread of the fire," Cal Fire said in a statement on Facebook. A vegetation fire in California rapidly spread to 1,000 acres on Sunday ...