CalFire has new threat designations for areas much closer to urban areas than before. Maps for the Central Valley came out ...

The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations focused on fire safety ... counties in the Central Valley, Southern California, and along the Central Coast.

FILE - The Eaton Fire destroys a structure, Jan. 7, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope, File) LOS ANGELES (CN) — Los Angeles County filed a lawsuit Wednesday against regional utility ...

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The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews ... to the California Association of Counties, it is unlikely that home insurance providers would use the maps as a ...

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations ...