Los Angeles Times2d
Cal Fire’s updated fire-hazard maps will double the area of locally managed land that must comply with safety codes
After the 1980 Panorama fire in San Bernardino County that killed four, the state first ordered the agency to create the maps for the wildland regions where it was responsible for responding to fires.
California Wildfire Map Update as Clay Fire Ignites
The Clay Fire has sparked in Riverside County on Tuesday night as wildfires continue to plague Southern California.
The Desert Sun26d
How do we keep a wildland fire from becoming an urban conflagration?
In my career I've worked for urban fire departments as well as federal wildland fire agencies. I've managed and directed many fires in the wildland urban interface as well as public wildlands and ...
Los Angeles Times8d
Cal Fire’s predictions didn’t foresee the Altadena inferno. Now it’s changing its fire-hazard maps
created a model to assess the probability of properties being in a wildfire. It found a significant potential for extreme winds to push fire deep into Altadena. Cal Fire’s maps follow a trail of ...
Firehouse6d
Fire Hazard Maps Changing after Altadena, CA, Inferno
with the goal of identifying areas with a heightened risk of wildfire. Eventually, the maps became integral in policymaking: A decade later, the Tunnel fire pushed lawmakers to require residents i ...
More than 2 million acres of local land in California designated high or very high fire danger areas
Reflecting intensifying wildfires and updated science, new state maps designate more than 2.3 million acres of local land in ...
Cal Fire's updated fire-hazard maps will double the area of locally managed land that must comply with safety codes
Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...
Firehouse29d
Fire Experts Discuss Inconvenient Truths about CA Wildfires
A stairway is all that's left of a house that burned down amid the Paradise fire, on Pacific Coast Highway on Jan. 9 in Malibu. Not quite six years ago, wildfire ... fire. Maps of the Eaton ...
Map shows rising wildfire threat across the U.S.: See if you're affected
A combination of hotter and drier weather and more people living in places that naturally burn are making things complicated.
USA Today20d
Hughes Fire breaks out near Castaic Lake in Los Angeles County: See wildfire map
Live SoCal fire updates:LA County's Hughes wildfire goes from brush blaze to ... and Clay fires in Riverside County. See below for a map of the latest blaze that's concerning authorities.