For the first time in at least 14 years, state officials will release updated fire maps for Southern California on Monday, March 24, showing where wildfires are most likely to occur within the next ...

One in 8 Californians now live in places at risk for the kinds of devastating wildfires that tore through Los Angeles this winter, according to a Washington Post analysis of new state fire maps.

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 orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of Delaware.

Cal Fire's new maps for Southern California added 3.5 million acres into fire-hazard zones, increasing the acreage in the highest hazard zone by 26%.

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

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

Home and building owners in some parts of northeast Bakersfield will have to take additional fire prevention measures next ...

Weeks after deadly fires swept through Los Angeles County, the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California's largest utilities to ...

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire, has been releasing these maps in installments over the last six weeks, beginning with counties in the state’s far north and ...

Cal Fire began rolling out updated fire maps in February, releasing maps for Northern and Central California in three prior phases. Berlant said rapidly changing weather delayed the updating of ...