Counties in the greater Sacramento region including El Dorado, Nevada, Placer ... Cal Fire officials liken the maps to flood zone maps, which show the probability of an area being inundated ...

Revisions to FEMA's flood maps will remove 300 homes in Quincy from the flood zone. The change could save residents a combined $300,000 annually in flood insurance costs. The revised map ...

CANTON– St. Lawrence County residents have until the end of April to comment on changes being made to federal maps that ...

More than 800,000 acres of land across these SoCal counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard severity zone ...

2007-2011 Fire Hazard Severity Zones Once the hazard zone maps are released by the state, local jurisdictions can adopt them or amend them by increasing the hazard level for particular areas.

Two months after the most destructive wildfires in Los Angeles history, Cal Fire has released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the county. The surveys use various criteria to identify ...

The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. These maps are intended to “drive local planning decisions, not insurance decisions." ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles County for the first time in over a decade on Monday, adding more than ...

A hardiness zone is a geographic area with a similar average minimum temperature. The map is based on the average annual extreme minimum temperature, so people in those areas know which plants can ...

Cal Fire explains these maps function similarly to flood zone maps, "where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area being inundated by floodwaters, and not ...