Despite leaving some high-fire areas off the map, regulators say the plan is designed specifically to benefit suburban ...

With streaks of yellow, orange and red, Cal Fire’s new fire risk maps make plain the extent of fire danger in the Bay Area. The origin of the maps dates to one of the first major wildfires to burn ...

Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity maps show dramatic increases in some areas of Sonoma and Napa counties and around San Jose. In Contra Costa ...

State officials have released a third batch of maps showing fire hazards in California's Bay Area and the state's northern ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- CAL FIRE is overhauling its wildfire risk maps for cities across the Bay Area. The new fire lines will mean major changes for homeowners. It's the first time in more than a ...

Cal Fire's new fire risk maps make plain the extent of fire danger in the Bay Area. The origin of the maps date back to one of the first major wildfires to burn into neighborhoods in the state ...

Separately, for the first time in 15 years, Cal Fire also released a new fire-risk map for the Bay Area. The red areas on the map represent very high-risk fire zones. Sonoma County saw the biggest ...

In the East Bay, Orinda saw a dramatic increase in fire hazard ... Fire officials emphasize that the maps are intended to show hazard, not risk — like flood-zone maps that show the probability ...

TALKED WITH FIRE OFFICIALS IN THE EAST BAY ABOUT THE NEW MAP ... AND FOR THE AREAS NOW CONSIDERED A HIGHER RISK, THE MAPS WILL LEAD TO UPDATED REQUIREMENTS FOR BUILDING AND LOCAL PLANNING.

The new maps ... fire in 2019 and the Ranch fire in 2018. Fourteen out of the 109 cities mapped in the coastal Northern California region saw a decrease in acreage for the highest-risk fire ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) recently released new fire hazard severity zone maps for ...