As directed by Senate Bill 6120, which was adopted in 2024, the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is leading the development of a Wildfire Hazard and Risk Mapping initiative to enhance wildfire ...

North Carolina's hazard mapping program is trying to better predict which landslide-prone places face threats in future ...

Dave Miller: From the Gert Boyle Studio at OPB, this is Think Out Loud. I’m Dave Miller. Two years ago, the state of Oregon released a wildfire risk map. It put about half of the state’s tax loss in ...

Only 21% of properties within the Eaton fire perimeter were in Cal Fire’s “very high” fire hazard severity zones. Yet 94% of those properties had “severe” or “extreme” wildfire risk, according to more ...

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials on Monday unveiled updated fire hazard maps for the High Desert and other portions of Southern California The new Cal Fire rankings, the ...

Find Firehouse.com’s full coverage of the 2025 California Fire Storm, which began Jan. 7 near Los Angeles, here. LOS ANGELES — The Tunnel fire broke out in a wooded canyon just minutes away from UC ...

A LEGISLATOR is pushing for the approval of a measure that mandates the preparation of multi-hazard maps for every city and municipality in the country and integrate these tools into disaster risk ...

Cal Fire added at least 2.8 million Californians into its Fire Hazard Severity Zones. The zones, referenced in over 100 sections of code and regulation, are tied to home hardening, defensible space ...

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