To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame length and ember-dispersion distances, terrain and weather patterns are ...

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State officials have released a third batch of maps showing fire hazards in California's Bay Area and the state's northern ...

Cal Fire added more than 360,000 acres in coastal Northern California to its fire hazard zones where heightened fire safety regulations will apply. New Southern California maps come out March 24.

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The Trump administration’s DOGE program has fired hundreds of park rangers across the United States, and that painful process ...

including San Jose, Orinda and Half Moon Bay as well as counties including Sonoma and Napa, where multiple major wildfires ...

San Jose saw the largest increase in acres zoned ... not the local responsibility areas subject to the new maps. Cal Fire’s new models better account for how flying embers contribute to fire ...

Cal Fire's maps, which are still in draft form ... Area gained more acres in the highest tiers of fire risk, including San Jose, Orinda and Half Moon Bay as well as counties including Sonoma ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection ... and "very high" risk increased by nearly 20,000 acres in San Jose, and in Cupertino, they expanded from 16 acres to almost 1,600.