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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Newly released draft fire risk maps from Cal Fire have updated changes in Solano County’s Fire Hazard Severity Zones, used by state and local firefighters to divide responsibility and monitor risks.

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.

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 ...