The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety is urging L.A. County supervisors to expand the wildfire construction ...

California's Public Advocate has been pressing for new utility fire maps since 2023. Utilities are on board — but regulators turned them down.

New hazard designations increase the number of homes that must comply with wildfire building codes during reconstruction.

California’s nearly $4 trillion economy is heavily dependent on international trade. A tariff war could impact that ...

RELATED: Southern California fire danger zones increase ... Fire area remains in a very-high fire zone. In Altadena, however, hazard maps released at least 14 years ago designated just three ...

In Altadena, where more than 9,000 total structures burned and most residents are still dealing with the fire’s effects on a daily basis, a massive new physical map is helping some come to terms with ...

CalFire released its fourth and final round of color-coded fire hazard severity maps. Different colors come with different rules.

“The old maps, as I recall, failed to identify Altadena as a high-hazard area,” Jack Cohen, a retired research physical scientist with the U.S. Forest Service who worked in Southern California ...