RELATED: New Bay Area fire-hazard maps: Is your city among those seeing striking increases? The previous maps only designated land in very-high fire hazard zones. Residents and local governments ...

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

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

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

RELATED: New Bay Area fire-hazard maps: Is your city among those seeing striking increases? A five-fold expansion of wildfire hazard zones across Southern California raised homeowner concerns that ...

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 ...

(KGO) -- While most of California is prone to wildfires, the South Bay ... of zone map was released was back in 2011. If residents want to see the updated areas, they can go to CAL FIRE's website.