The National Academies Food Forum hosted a public workshop in September 2024 to explore science-informed hazard- and risk-based approaches to safeguarding both the domestic and global food systems.

A 2014 report by the U.S. Geological Survey noted that rockfalls “pose substantial hazard and risk to the approximately 4 million annual visitors to Yosemite National Park.”. The USGS began ...

Hazard versus risk. Cal Fire is adamant that its hazard maps do not influence fire insurance rates nor policy renewals in the state — and for a good reason: While Cal Fire models hazard ...

1 in 8 Californians live in the most dangerous wildfire zones After the L.A. fires, updated hazard maps show “we are living in a new reality of extremes." ...

Hazard, again, are those factors that don't change frequently…where risk is really based on other conditions, other modifications. And the LA fires really were not wildfires.

Scroll down to see how the fire risk changed since 2011 in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. You can find Cal Fire’s latest online map here.