Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The ...

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity ...

A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, according to new maps released this week by the Office of the State Fire Marshal ...

KRON4's Gayle Ong reports. Read more: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/12-contra-costa-county-cities-have-high-fire-hazard ...

To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame ...

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 ...

Cal Fire added more than 360,000 acres in coastal Northern California to its fire hazard zones where heightened fire safety ...

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, according to new ...

Cal Fire’s Fire Hazard Severity maps for local jurisdictions, issued in 2011, are being updated, with Bay Area maps released Monday. While the old maps showed only areas deemed “very high ...