New Bay Area fire-hazard maps: Is your city among those seeing striking increases?
To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame length and ember-dispersion distances, terrain and weather patterns are ...
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Crashes and Disasters
CA -AUGUST 20: A Lick Observatory building destroyed by the SCU Lightning Complex Fire is photographed atop Mount Hamilton, Calif., on Thursday, Aug. 20, 2020. The Observatory narrowly escaped ...
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Cal Fire begins releasing new state-mandated maps showing highest fire hazard areas
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection this week released new fire hazard severity zone maps for dozens of inland Northern California cities and towns — the first updates to ...
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New fire maps in California add 1.4 million acres requiring stronger safety regulations
Cal Fire’s updated maps will add 1.4 million acres to zones requiring stricter fire safety regulations, including parts of San Joaquin County around Tracy and Mountain House. The new maps ...
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Cal Fire seeks to help tribes bring ‘good fire’ to local reservations
Within a few hours, 160 acres were cleared. About 160 acres of grassland on the Barona reservation was cleared by fire in early December. Cal Fire officials hope other local reservations will be ...
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Congress must continue to fund these critical strategies to fight and prevent wildfires | Opinion
The Camp Fire in November 2018 took almost ... North Complex and Dixie fires. Northern California also battled the CZU Lightening Complex, August Complex, Valley, Tubbs and Caldor wildfires.