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

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm ... Cal Fire's new fire risk maps make plain the extent of fire danger in the Bay Area. The origin of the maps date back ...

The new maps add 1.4 million acres of land statewide into higher fire severity categories, accompanied by stricter building and local planning code requirements for property owners. To view the ...

Submit a letter to the editor. The state says it is concerned with fire danger. Their solution is a fire map so that the ...

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

Areas of Orinda, Richmond, Moraga, San Pablo, Lafayette, Antioch, Clayton, El Cerrito, Brentwood, Danville, Concord, and Pinole are considered very high fire hazard severity zones, ...

To view the latest local fire hazard maps, go here. Go here for more about the state’s fire hazard mapping. State officials released the latest round of highly anticipated fire hazard maps ...

The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews ... to the California Association of Counties, it is unlikely that home insurance providers would use the maps as a ...

No injuries or structural losses have been reported. However, fire danger was expected to continue through Tuesday afternoon, bringing gusts between 20 and 25mph. In North Carolina, the U.S. Forest ...

(File photo courtesy of Cal Fire) Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate ... land in California as facing “high” or “very high” danger of wildfires.