The boundary changes represent the first updates to the city’s map since 2009. Newly added properties will be subject to stiffer requirements for landowners during peak fire season.

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LOS ANGELES (KESQ) - Cal Fire released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the state's counties today, using various criteria to identify wildfire hazard areas and ranking them on a ...

California’s wildfire season is now nearly a year-round danger, as was seen by the devastating, fast-moving fires that swept through the Los Angeles area in January. Fueled by the effects of climate ...

Cal Fire has released a long-awaited set of updated maps outlining the fire hazard severity zones in Marin County and elsewhere in the Bay Area. Marin fire officials say the maps, while mostly showing ...

The federal government has denied Washington a hazard mitigation grant that the state requested as part of its response to ...

HUNTINGTON — Information on hazard mitigation projects, applications and buyout processes was the catalyst of a public meeting by the West Virginia Emergency Management Division on Tuesday evening at ...

A dozen East Bay cities in Contra Costa County have areas that fall into the "very high fire hazard severity" category, according to new maps released this week by the Office of the State Fire Marshal ...