The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. Instead, the maps evaluate hazard, or the “physical conditions that create a ...

A tsunami warning was issued for California's North Coast, after a massive earthquake off the coast of eastern Russia.

Southern California’s five most populous counties saw the size of the very-high fire zone grow to more than 812,000 acres in the latest update, up from just over 644,000 in the previous maps ...

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the highest hazard zone by 26%.

They are like flood zone maps, where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area being inundated by floodwaters, and not specifically prescriptive of impacts.

Cal Fire has released maps identifying the level of fire hazard severity that cities across eight Southern California counties face as part of efforts to prepare for and prevent wildfires. The ...