Cal Matters reports that the California State Fire Marshall's Office released new maps for local jurisdictions to enforce fire safety rules. More than 2 million acres of land in California, ...

If you placed a map of the vast areas ... “That’s where you have a fire start in close proximity to population centres, and then that time from ignition to impact is very short.” ...

Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...

CAL FIRE's maps only showed a ring of “very high” red hazard in the wildlands next to Altadena, with the vast majority of the ...

As of Tuesday morning, the two new fires have been called the Lilac Fire and the Pala Fire. Both started in San Diego County in the early hours of Tuesday. A map of evacuation orders and warnings ...

Sustained west-southwest winds of 20-25 mph, with gusts reaching 30-40 mph, combined with low humidity and dry grass would increase the risk of fire ignition in these areas, it said. "A ...

So there was a good deal of anticipation that if we had an ignition, it was going to be ... The other two were the 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado, which burnt more than 6,000 acres and 1,000 ...

Nor is there a confined fire season anymore. Three years ago, in the winter, the Marshall Fire burned 1,084 ... resilient conditions, utilizing ignition-resistant building materials, creating ...