Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the highest hazard zone by 26%.

An online map by Cal Fire outlines fire hazard severity zones in Marin County on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (Alan Dep/Marin Independent Journal) ...

Fire hazard zones are based on the likelihood that an area will burn over decades. But the maps don't show the risk or potential damage a fire could do based on more short-term conditions.

California Faces Health Hazard From Extreme Heat and Wildfires Combined. Published Feb 02, 2024 at 2:00 PM EST. By . Robyn White is a Newsweek Nature Reporter based in London, UK.

Hazard map first rolled out in 2022. The hazard map is a mandated outcome of SB 762, which was passed in 2021 a year after Oregon’s destructive Labor Day fires.

Several areas of La Jolla are identified as having “very high” fire hazards in a new assessment by Cal Fire, the first new map since 2011 laying out fire hazard zones across the state.

The state wildfire hazard map may be dead but on its way out but wildfire is not. This is a section of the map in northwest Bend. (State of Oregon) Oregonians are from Mars and the state’s ...