Cal Fire’s updated fire-hazard maps will double the area of locally managed land that must comply with safety codes
Cal Fire will begin rolling out new fire-hazard severity maps, which are expected to more than double the land in ...
New 837 area code begins for portions of Northern California
The 837 area code is a new overlay for customers served by the 530 area code, the California Public Utilities Commission ...
Fire Hazard Maps Changing after Altadena, CA, Inferno
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 ...
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This economist survived a wildfire. Now she's taking on California's insurance crisis
An economist's harrowing escape from fire and her big ideas to rescue California from its insurance doom spiral.
Southern California's winds weakening; at least 25 dead, 26 missing amid wildfires
Fires across the Los Angeles area have killed at least 25 people. The Palisades and Eaton fires continue to burn in Southern ...
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California wildfires: Over 6 million in Los Angeles area under ‘critical fire threat’
California wildfires ... are “going to maintain the critical fire weather conditions across the area,” he said. Maps hosted by Los Angeles County government are allowing residents to determine ...
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Wildland urban interface
A CalMatters analysis has found that as of 2020, nearly 14 million Californians lived in the sprawling 7-million-acre zone ...
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What happened on Monday, Jan. 13 during the Eaton, Palisades firestorms in Southern California
After a brief reprieve, Southern California faces two days of dangerous ... But that turned out to be false hope — the app’s map was hours behind what was happening on the ground in real ...
‘We have to figure this out’: Rising flood risks delivers double blow to communities with housing shortages
A POLITICO analysis found roughly a quarter of all large metro areas face both housing shortages and high flood risk.