Despite a five-fold increase in state-designated danger zones, private carriers use their own risk templates for determining ...

The Town Council voted unanimously on Thursday to adopt an ordinance designating the fire hazard severity zones. Most of the ...

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Overall, the Bay Area saw a slight drop in high fire hazard zone acres compared to the prior maps. However, two counties saw a large increase - Napa and Sonoma. Napa had the largest increase ...

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

All told, the size of these orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice ... of the state where Cal Fire is in charge were remapped in late 2022 and also ...

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