The Long Island Regional Planning Council voted Wednesday to allocate $40,000 for improvements to the Long Island Zoning Atlas.

much of that in the county’s eastern unincorporated open lands, but also in cities including Rancho Cordova, Folsom and Elk Grove. Cal Fire officials liken the maps to flood zone maps ...

In KCRA 3's coverage area, the maps show a big increase in areas deemed a very high or high fire hazard in Amador County ... "They are like flood zone maps, where lands are described in terms ...

Unincorporated Sonoma County saw its “very high” hazard ... whereas before Cal Fire only mapped for “very high” hazard. Like flood zone maps, the assessments don’t account for mitigation ...

Fire officials emphasize that the maps are intended to show hazard, not risk — like flood ... Zone 0 regulation will come at varying costs, said Seth Schalet, CEO of the non-profit Santa Clara ...

FEMA is beginning to wrap a project it has been leading since 2013, which has seen engineers map all waterways in St. Lawrence County aside from those in the Adirondack Park and their potential flood ...