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

Home and building owners in some parts of northeast Bakersfield will have to take additional fire prevention measures next ...

Last year, a Times analysis found that nonrenewals were focused in areas with higher wildfire risk. Essentially, Cal Fire’s maps don’t tell insurers anything they didn’t already know.

The maps show the risk of a wildfire caused by equipment owned by the state’s three major investor-owned utilities; they are separate from Cal Fire’s maps that show the potential for fires ...

Real estate analyst Steve Thomas also noticed ... Also see: Southern California fire danger zones increase 76% in new maps A five-fold expansion of wildfire hazard zones across Southern California ...

Home and building owners in some parts of northeast Bakersfield will have to take additional fire prevention ... the release of updated wildfire severity maps. The California Department of ...