Despite leaving some high-fire areas off the map, regulators say the plan is designed specifically to benefit suburban ...

The current plan is to ban most plants (apart from ... by local fire departments in 17 counties in the San Francisco Bay Area and along Northern California’s coast. Cal Fire will release another batch ...

With the start of daylight saving time, officials are urging residents to take extra precautions for both fire safety and ...

(Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) New maps issued by state fire officials show several Bay ... high hazard — the acreage dropped to 638 in current maps from 1,506 in 2011 — but has 1,493 ...

For the first time in more than a decade, Cal Fire is reassessing wildfire risk in Bay Area cities. New fire hazard severity maps show dramatic increases in some areas of Sonoma and Napa counties ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- CAL FIRE is overhauling its wildfire risk maps for cities across the Bay Area. The new fire lines will mean major changes for homeowners. It's the first time in more than a ...

A Lakewood, a Paramount and a Texas resident face charges for allegedly filing false claims with two illegally receiving wildfire-disaster funds designed for those who lost homes and other ...

And I was like, nothing can survive this. It’s impossible.” Why were these Bay Area communities left off map of fire-risk areas where insurers must expand coverage? In a uniquely 2020s ...

In Oakland, the current average price for a regular ... In the aftermath of the fire on Feb. 1, the Bay Area Air Quality District sent violation notices to the refinery, alleging excessive smoke ...

Officials with the Bay Area Air District said began getting complaints about odor coming from Martinez Refinery Company hours before the fire that injured six people started earlier this month.