A powerful storm dropping drenching rain on flood-prone Southern California is raising concern among forecasters that it ...

The next phase of updated California Fire Hazard Severity Zones is set to be released Monday by the Office of the State Fire Marshal and Cal Fire. New maps rating the likelihood and severity of ...

Cal Fire's updated Fire Hazard Severity Zones map adds 1.4 million acres across the state to the High and Very High fire ...

Cities with the most hazardous acres of very high fire hazard include Moorpark, Simi Valley, and Thousand Oaks, and the "very high" hazard acreage in Ojai more than tripled. Unincorporated land in ...

The text messages show how officials first started to realize how bad things were getting and that the windswept blazes had ...

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s direction to redo draft recycling rules is already reverberating on the opposite coast — and reviving ...

A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, ...

The California Board of Forestry and Fire ... none listed in the earlier maps released between 2007 and 2011. Marshall Nau, deputy fire marshal with the Southern Marin Fire Protection District ...

"This windstorm event could lead to potentially life-threatening and destructive impacts similar in magnitude to the 2011 Pasadena windstorm." "Any fires that develop during this period may ...

Fire hazards in California have grown ... of the “very high” hazard acreage is substantial. For example, in 2011, Lake County had just five acres of unincorporated land in that zone while ...

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building ...

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