Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm, which began Jan. 7 near Los Angeles, here. Feb. 25—With streaks of yellow, orange and red, Cal Fire's new fire risk maps ...

Sacramento, Amador, Calaveras and Tuolumne counties are represented in the new maps. The next phase of updated California Fire Hazard Severity Zones, which assess the likelihood of wildfire ...

THOSE NEW CAL FIRE MAPS SHOW YOLO COUNTY HAS NEARLY 40,000 NEW ACRES ADDED TO THE RISK AREA, AND STANISLAUS COUNTY MORE THAN 60,000 ACRES. THESE ACRES WERE NOT CONSIDERED HIGH RISK BA California ...

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"California’s resilience means we will keep updating our standards in the most fire-prone areas." The maps are divided into Fire Hazard Severity Zones—moderate, High, or Very High—and ...

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 ...

“It is important to stress that the new severity zone maps were created by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) under the direction of the State Fire Marshal ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has updated its classification of areas that are more at risk of ...