The winds that blew through the Santa Cruz ... the Tubbs Fire in 2017 and the Camp Fire in 2018, legislators passed a series of laws aimed at improving emergency preparedness and evacuation ...

A map of the evacuation zones is available here. The Santa Cruz Wharf and Capitola Beach will be closed until Saturday morning as a precaution. The County of Santa Cruz has opened emergency severe ...

Gavin Newsom announced 400 emergency ... map detailing mandatory and voluntary orders for this week's storm can be found here. On Tuesday, deputies had begun notifying residents about evacuation ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection released updated fire-hazard severity-zone maps for Los Angeles ... the outskirts of Santa Clarita and Palmdale areas and Puente Hills ...

The easy ironies abound when it comes to the new high-danger areas drawn onto the fire hazard maps of Southern California ... or even an expanding hamlet in the Santa Cruz Mountains — or even ...

T he Palisades Fire burned its way through Jennifer Champion’s life. It started in the hills where her family liked to hike ...

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey, illustrate the devastation ...

Also at potential risk are popular tourist hotspots from Malibu to Santa Barbara’s waterfront, the Monterey Bay Aquarium and a swath of Santa Cruz ... and no maps or evacuation signs are ...

Coffey Park, the Santa Rosa neighborhood torched by the Tubbs Fire in 2017, was miles from the demarcated red zone in CalFire’s prior maps. That’s because the hazard maps are meant to predict ...

All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of ...