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Cal Fire has released new fire hazard severity zone maps for public review and comment, including maps for Tulare County, ...

According to Cal Fire data, San Diego County has 157,338 acres with “very high” fire hazard, the highest level of hazard. In ...

More than 3.5 million additional acres across Southern California, including Los Angeles County, have been designated as fire hazard zones under updated maps released on Monday by the California ...

2007-2011 Fire Hazard Severity Zones Once the hazard zone maps are released by the state, local jurisdictions can adopt them or amend them by increasing the hazard level for particular areas.

Cal Fire has released new fire hazard severity zone maps for public review and comment, including maps for Tulare County, Woodlake, and Porterville. The new maps will impact future building ...

The biggest increase occurred in Riverside County town of Jurupa Valley, which had 6,195 acres in the very-high zone, vs. 226 in the previous map. Very-high fire zones increased in Los Angeles ...

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 ...