Despite a five-fold increase in state-designated danger zones, private carriers use their own risk templates for determining ...

The wildfire — which some agencies called the Laws Fire — was reported Sunday afternoon near the highway bridge over the ...

Feb. 24—New maps issued by state fire officials show several Bay Area cities with striking increases in areas deemed at high and very high likelihood of wildfire, raising the specter of ...

While most of California is prone to wildfires, the South Bay is seeing a significant increase in hazardous areas compared to others. Out of all the Bay Area cities, San Jose saw the largest increase ...

See where your home falls in California's new fire hazard zones, the first update to the state's maps in 14 years.

Cal Fire said the maps are proactive, to be used in wildland-urban interface building standards for new construction and ...

As part of a new plan to stabilize California’s home insurance crisis, state regulators have updated a map of fire-risk areas where insurers will soon be expected to write more policies. The goal is ...

While most of California is prone to wildfires, the South Bay is seeing a significant increase in hazardous areas compared to ...

California is requiring two West Valley communities to build thousands of homes, while the state is ringing alarm bells over ...

Firefighters and other personnel from nearly 90 fire departments spanning all nine Bay Area counties are helping to battle the cascade of wildfires that have ravaged large swaths of Los Angeles over ...