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

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

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health said the ocean water advisory for Las Flores State Beach to Santa Monica ...

For the first time in over a decade, the state has released updated maps showing wildfire hazards in local neighborhoods.

The L.A. County Board of Supervisors has until July 22 to adopt the maps. While local governments can’t reduce the size of state-designated fire zones, they can increase them. In Santa Monica ...

That's because Cal Fire had already identified the serious hazards posed by the Santa Monica Mountains on the 2011 maps. In Altadena, an unincorporated part of L.A. County that faced the worst of ...

Basically any mountain or hillside in Los Angeles county is considered a “very high” hazard, and since the 2011 edition of the map, those areas have slightly swollen with a fringe of “high” and ...

What do the maps show? The Office of the State Fire Marshal found that the land ... across San Vicente Boulevard farther into Santa Monica, and south of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood.

Meanwhile, 35 cities without any fire zones in the previous map now do, including Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, Huntington Beach, Laguna Hills, Chino Hills and ...