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.

Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and ...

LOS ANGELES -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California on new state maps published Monday, as fire officials rush to keep up with the impacts of climate change on the Golden State.

THIS IS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SO WE’RE KIND OF ZOOMING IN ON THAT FOR YOU RIGHT THERE. THE MAPS PUT NEARLY 4 MILLION PEOPLE NOW IN HAZARDOUS ZONES. AND YOU CAN SEE THE COLOR CODING HERE.

For the first time in 14 years, California's fire hazard severity zone maps have been updated by the state fire marshal.

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

However, drought maps also reported parts Southern California are in extreme drought, boosting fire risk this spring. That’s after Southern California was already devastated by wildfires in winter.

With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps on Monday morning, California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire ...

“They are a planning tool.” The maps released Monday cover eight counties in Southern California and along the Nevada border: Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San ...