This story was originally published by Grist with the headline 1 in 8 Californians live in the most dangerous wildfire zones ...

More than 800,000 acres of land across these SoCal counties have been classified under the highest fire hazard severity zone ...

One in 8 Californians now live in places at risk for the kinds of devastating wildfires that tore through Los Angeles this ...

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 ...

Two months after deadly wildfires razed thousands of homes in the Los Angeles area, Cal Fire has released a new map showing ...

For the first time in 14 years, California's fire hazard severity zone maps have been updated by the state fire marshal.

Here’s what these maps mean, and how you can see what level of fire hazard severity has been assigned to where you live. California lands are classified as either moderate, high or very high ...

As California continues to face an increasing number of wildfires, Cal Fire has released a new map showing fire hazard ...

California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire, has been releasing these maps in installments over the last six weeks, beginning with counties in the state’s far north and ...

Also see: Southern California fire danger zones increase 76% in new maps All told ... all of which could have lasting effects on how people live, communities plan and housing markets function ...