For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity ...

Areas of Orinda, Richmond, Moraga, San Pablo, Lafayette, Antioch, Clayton, El Cerrito, Brentwood, Danville, Concord, and ...

State officials have released a third batch of maps showing fire hazards in California's Bay Area and the state's northern ...

To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame ...

The new maps add 1.4 million acres of land statewide into higher fire severity categories, accompanied by stricter building ...

Several locations in the Bay Area are considered very high fire hazard severity zones, according to new maps released this ...

Local leaders say the Cal Fire publication could affect the enforcement of state laws on defensible space and real estate.

Cal Fire’s Fire Hazard Severity maps for local jurisdictions, issued in 2011, are being updated, with Bay Area maps released Monday. While the old maps showed only areas deemed “very high ...

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The ...

A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, according to new maps released this week by the Office of the State Fire Marshal ...