Calling the state's wildfire crisis "immense," CAL FIRE and federal officials presented a new three-part strategy that includes community hardening, forest management and wildfire response.

The county is still healing from the scars of 2021’s Caldor Fire, the inferno that ... Creating defensible space including what Cal Fire calls “Zone Zero,” clearing the first 5 feet around ...

Four years since the Caldor Fire sparked and burned more than 200,000 acres in California's El Dorado, Amador and Alpine ...

CalFire released the last of its updated fire hazard severity maps on Monday, showing a 3.5 million acre expansion of Southern California’s zones. The largest increases were in the Antelope Valley and ...

The county is still healing from the scars of 2021’s Caldor Fire, the inferno that ... Creating defensible space including what Cal Fire calls “Zone Zero,” clearing the first 5 feet around ...

Even before the Caldor Fire in Northern California in 2021 ... And that is exactly the kind of technology Cal Fire is hoping to utilize. "If it can take boots off the ground and guys in dangerous ...

Credit: Montecito Fire Department photo Do you live in a high fire hazard zone? CalFire has released updated fire hazard maps for Santa Barbara County and the rest of the state, showing land in ...

According to an FAQ from CalFire, the model used to determine fire hazard primarily looks at "probability of an area burning and expected fire behavior under extreme fuel and weather conditions." ...

Roughly every decade, CalFire releases a new map that outlines exactly which areas of California are within fire hazard zones: pieces of property that, due to a mix of fuel, terrain and weather ...

A father and son from El Dorado County, accused of starting the devastating Caldor Fire of 2021, will not stand trial after a judge ruled insufficient evidence. A father and son from El Dorado ...

According to Cal Fire, the determination of "hazard" is based "on the physical conditions that create a likelihood and expected fire behavior over a 30- to 50-year period, without considering ...