Palisades Fire initially started 10:30 a.m. Jan. 7 in Los Angeles County. It has burned 23,448 acres after being active for ...

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

Newly released maps from Cal Fire increased the “very high” hazard zones, which span many of the county’s priciest homes ...

Under state law, Los Angeles County must adopt the new wildfire hazard maps by July 22nd. According to the Los Angeles County Fire Department, that means if residents in the newly expanded zones ...

Following the Los Angeles wildfires in January, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order expediting an overhaul of Cal Fire's outdated wildfire hazard maps. The data was published in batches ...

More than 800,000 acres of land across these SoCal counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard severity zone ...

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

A prominent group of academics and real estate industry experts has crafted a far-reaching plan to hasten the recovery of Los Angeles County ... by Steve Soboroff, wildfire chief recovery officer ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC ... vegetation type and the likelihood of a wildfire. The urgency to release the updated maps comes from an executive order signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom last month, following ...

This story was originally published by Grist with the headline 1 in 8 Californians live in the most dangerous wildfire zones ...