One in 8 Californians now live in places at risk for the kinds of devastating wildfires that tore through Los Angeles this winter, according to a Washington Post analysis of new state fire maps.

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

Cities with first-time fire zone designations include Santa Monica, La Cañada-Flintridge, South Pasadena, Alhambra, ...

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire, has been releasing these maps in installments over the last six ... A home perched at the top of a steep hillside, surrounded by dense ...

Andria Hautamaki When the 2021 Dixie Fire barreled toward Jeff Greef’s Northern California cabin ... he thinned his ten-acre forest. With the support of the landowner-led Plumas Underburn ...

Southern California's wildfire-ravaged national forests soon ... Charred portions of the forest that burned in the Eaton Fire ...

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The new state maps show fire zones extend at least seven ... a retired research physical scientist with the U.S. Forest Service who worked in Southern California during the 1980s.