More parts of Orange County are identified where residents might be required to start taking measures to protect their homes.

More than 90% of the city of Poway is designated as a moderate, high or very high Fire Hazard Severity Zone, Cal Fire reported in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire agency ...

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Victor Insurance's Jeff Benson on why brokers are rethinking risk management as wildfires outpace conventional underwriting ...

California is requiring two West Valley communities to build thousands of homes, while the state is ringing alarm bells over increasing fire risk where some of these homes might be ...

A section of Montebello was designated susceptible to wildfires by CalFire. Whittier officials also say they are ...

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

Cal Fire’s refreshed maps show a large increase in areas considered hazardous: “High” and “very high” hazard zones have grown ...

High winds and dry conditions have significantly heightened the fire risk across Texas, prompting officials to warn of "extreme fire danger" in West Texas, stretching from the Big Bend region ...

Los Angeles-based KB Home unveiled its Dixon Trail development in Escondido this week that it calls “wildfire resistant.” It ...

Grass Valley’s Risk Reduction Manager, Duane Strawser, explores creative fire safety approaches amidst updated fire hazard ...