California's outdated utility fire maps raise concerns after recent wildfires. Despite calls for updates, regulators have ...

For the first time in at least 14 years, state officials will release updated fire maps for Southern California on Monday, March 24, showing where wildfires are most likely to occur within the next ...

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

That’s around one in 8 Californians. The updated maps take into account California’s fire history, local weather patterns, terrain and new models showing how embers can travel miles away from ...

WE HAVE TH California officials on Monday released the fourth and final set of local maps that rate the ... are not intended to assess the current "risk" of wildfire damage but take a longer ...

New hazard designations increase the number of homes that must comply with wildfire building codes during reconstruction.

State officials in California have unveiled new fire hazard maps for Southern California ... the classifications come with specific requirements. Current property owners must comply with ...

Weeks after deadly fires swept through Los Angeles County, the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California’s largest ...

Two months after deadly wildfires razed thousands of homes in the Los Angeles area, Cal Fire has released a new map showing fire hazard severity zones for the entire state. The maps were developed ...

With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps on Monday morning, California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire — and how much ...

Devastating wind-fuelled wildfires caused havoc in southern California earlier this year ... told Business Insider that current fire monitoring systems are often too slow to give firefighters ...