The Butte County Board of Supervisors moved forward with adopting the new Fire Hazard Severity Zone map for its local ...

The new fire hazard severity zone map shows which California neighborhoods are considered “very high” zones while others can be classified as “high” or "moderate.” Stream Los Angeles ...

LOS ANGELES -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday ... all kinds of data in order to approve the house," Dinger said. "It's no longer, 'Sure ...

Homeowners in high and very-high fire hazard areas must comply with fire ... on their house and what they plant around their house.” The maps cover parts of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside ...

“If somebody’s building a new house somewhere, you would hate for them to build a home where you couldn’t drive a fire engine down the driveway.” Cal Fire is adamant that its hazard maps ...

Fire hazard severity map for Cupertino (courtesy of Cal Fire ... Others, like removing wooden gates and fencing within five feet of a house, can be costly. Homeowners on lower or fixed incomes ...

In this Reality Check, The Tribune investigated how various areas are labeled under Cal Fire’s new fire hazard severity maps.

The maps, which represent the most significant update in more than a decade, expand "very high" fire hazard zones by 35 percent across local fire jurisdictions, increasing from 860,000 acres to ...

This is large part because Cal Fire updated its model to include three fire hazard severity categories in the map instead of one, which significantly expanded the acreage that fell into hazard zones.

Cal Fire has released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the county. The surveys use various criteria to identify wildfire hazard areas and rank them on a three-tiered scale. The maps ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of Southern California on new state maps published Monday ... of data in order to approve the house," Dinger said.