California is one of the few states with building codes for wildfire protection because using fire-resistant materials helps ...

As California officially observes Tsunami Preparedness Week this week, one of the most vulnerable communities in the state is ...

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Southern California saw its fire risk zones expand by 3.5 million acres in CalFire’s new hazard maps. Homeowners in those ...

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 ...

Most cities in the region saw an increase in land labeled a “very high” fire hazard, according to new maps released by Cal ...

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

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

More than 1 million homes in Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco will be at moderate-to-high flood risk by 2050, ...

See where your home falls in California's new fire hazard zones, the first update to the state's maps in 14 years.

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire officials have released an updated fire hazard severity zone map for communities across the state.