The Madre Fire burning on Wednesday, July 2, between Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, along Highway 166 between ...

SAN DIEGO COUNTY, Calif. — Fire crews are battling a vegetation fire that is burning in San Diego County near State Route 94 ...

A vegetation fire quickly scorched a swath of grassland and forced the closure of Highway 166 on the San Luis Obispo-Santa ...

ESPARTO, Calif. — Crews in the Esparto and Madison area are responding to a fire at a fireworks warehouse Tuesday. The Yolo County Sheriff's Office said the explosion happened near County Road 23 and ...

The California Ranch Fire, which ignited Tuesday afternoon, had scorched around 4,205 acres of land in San Bernardino county by the end of the day. After starting at 2.33 p.m. local time on June ...

As California faces the 2021 wildfire season, the need for up-to-date information is critical. Fortunately, several groups have made fire maps available online that can help the public figure out ...

Southern California’s five most populous counties saw the size of the very-high fire zone grow to more than 812,000 acres in the latest update, up from just over 644,000 in the previous maps ...

The new maps have 817,212 acres categorized as very high, 364,767 acres in the high category and 2,956,761 acres in the moderate category. See maps by city for local Fire Hazard Severity Zones here.

The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. Instead, the maps evaluate hazard, or the “physical conditions that create a ...

These released maps are the final phase in a rollout of updated maps for California. More than 800,000 acres of land across these counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard ...

That’s home to roughly 3.7 million people, according to a CalMatters analysis which combined the maps with finegrain population estimates from University of California researchers.