OAKLAND — A two-alarm fire broke out Thursday afternoon in the East Oakland hills. The fire ignited around 1:05 p.m. in the ...

In new fire hazard severity maps released last week by state fire officials, Oakland saw a significant ... The maps from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection cover areas ...

Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near ... California’s Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, CalFire, has been releasing these maps in installments over the last six weeks, beginning ...

New Fire Maps Put Nearly 4 Million Californians in Hazardous Zones. What Does That Mean for Them? New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County. Smears of burnt orange now span the ...

LOS ANGELES -- Severe fire hazard zones blanket parts of California ... example, Oakland's very high hazard dropped from over 10,000 acres to a little less than 2,000. With the new maps, cities ...

OAKLAND — Even a small fire in the Oakland hills is enough to bring up bad memories for many in the community, especially given the city's looming budget crisis, which, at one point, shuttered ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Cal Fire, released new draft maps this week showing fire hazards in cities across California's Bay Area and the state's northern coast as ...

Get top local stories in Southern California delivered to you every morning. Sign up for NBC LA's News Headlines newsletter. A Cal Fire map from 2011 ... However, near Altadena, the very northern ...

California's wildfire hazard zones, categorized as "high" or "very high" risk, have significantly expanded since 2011. This expansion is attributed to climate change, improved modeling techniques ...