The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection began rolling out a long-awaited update to its fire hazard severity zones Monday, which is set to more than double the number of acres in ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection this week released new fire hazard severity zone maps for dozens of inland Northern California cities and towns — the first updates to ...

Firefighters from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection battle the Sugar fire, part of the Beckwourth Complex fire, in Doyle, Calif., in 2021. (Noah Berger / Associated Press ...

Multiple fire departments in western North Carolina responded to a brush fire on Saturday afternoon.At 4 p.m., the Yancey County Sheriff's Office said the brush fire was near Crabtree Road in ...

CAL FIRE IS ROLLING OUT NEW MAPS THIS WEEK, SHOWING THE ZONES THAT ARE UPDATED FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MORE THAN A DECADE. WE HAVE TEAM COVERAGE OF HOW THIS COULD AFFECT THIS AREA. WE START WITH ...

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The city of Auburn is one area with a big increase compared to the last time the Cal Fire maps were updated in 2011. Eric Egli's Auburn home now sits in a new Cal Fire designated very high ...

The department’s National Interagency Fire Center, which released the maps, points out that much of the U.S. received below normal precipitation in January and that drought had increased ...

“This is really unprecedented.” Cancelling an order could take a fire department out of a queue that has already gone from being a year wait a few years ago to a two- to four-year wait in the ...