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

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 Delaware.

California's wildfire ... or occupying a known wind tunnel is more likely to skew yellow, orange and red, no matter the composition of its sidings. “The reason we map these areas is to tie ...

The wind-whipped fire destroyed at ... weather delayed the updating of state fire maps. Over the past five to eight years, California weather has changed “faster than ever before,” he said.

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“Warmer climate means drier fuels, hotter weather in some cases, more severe wind patterns,” says ... and destructive blazes in California have pushed home insurance prices up, CalFire says their fire ...

Silver Fire near Bishop, California, has prompted evacuations in Inyo and Mono Counties and closed parts of U.S. Highway 6.

New Fire Maps ... across California since they were last drawn up in 2011? Three reasons, said Berlant. The first is climate change. A warming planet makes fuel drier and fire weather more severe.

April weather will pick up where March left off, with heavy snow in the Sierra Nevada and scattered downpours in the Bay Area and Sacramento Valley. A low-pressure system approaching the Oregon border ...