In this Reality Check, The Tribune investigated how various areas are labeled under Cal Fire’s new fire hazard severity maps.

After locating the point of ignition, they create fire behavior models ... Photo: CAL FIRE Most of the data that GIS specialists use to map fires comes from field observers and infrared (IR) thermal ...

AND WE ARE ALSO LEARNING SOME NEW INFORMATION IN THE POINT FIRE IN SONOMA COUNTY ... while an evacuation warning covers Zone SON-2E3. See a map of those zones here. During an evacuation order ...

To see the number of federally protected species in a given county, zoom in on the map until the county boundaries appear and click on a point within the county; then click the arrow on the right in ...

The widget also featured a five-point restoration process beginning with impact evaluation and progressing to neighborhood and street infrastructure repair. As of Thursday, however, the map has ...