With streaks of yellow, orange and red, Cal Fire’s new fire risk maps make plain the extent of fire danger in the Bay Area.

To determine the hazard level for an area, factors such as fire history, existing and potential vegetation, predicted flame length and ember-dispersion distances, terrain and weather patterns are ...

A Level 2 storm brought heavy rain, strong gusty winds to the Bay Area causing power outages and downed trees in the Bay Area ...

Cal Fire added more than 360,000 acres in coastal Northern California to its fire hazard zones where heightened fire safety ...

Several locations in the Bay Area are considered very high fire hazard severity zones, according to new maps released this ...

Rain has returned to the Bay Area, along with strong winds, as the first storm system enters the region. Follow along for ...

Cal Fire added over 1.2 million acres in Central California to its fire hazard severity zones. New maps for Southern ...

A project to update the Caltrain crossing in downtown Burlingame for safety has been in the works for years, but the price ...

Cal Fire’s Fire Hazard Severity maps for local jurisdictions, issued in 2011, are being updated, with Bay Area maps released Monday. While the old maps showed only areas deemed “very high ...

Photographs and Text by Devin Yalkin and Vice Cooler See the latest extent of the devastating fires in the Los Angeles area ... was destroyed by the California wildfires. Nearly two months ...