The updates are being released in four phases, and Monday's phase 3 update includes Ventura County ... insurance impacts, Cal Fire stresses that rates should not climb as a result of the new maps.

Newly released draft fire risk maps from Cal Fire have updated changes in Solano County’s Fire Hazard ... draft maps claims the changes would make insurance more accessible rather than more ...

"It is always a concern, when you live in an area that it is so open, that you could have a fire erupt at any point," said Corinne Beshara.

Cal Fire’s updated maps will add 1.4 million acres to zones requiring stricter fire safety regulations, including parts of San Joaquin County around Tracy and Mountain House. The new maps ...

Governor Newsom ordered the updated maps to address the "new reality of extremes" in California's wildfire landscape. The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building ...

Unincorporated Sonoma County ... adopt the maps and begin implementing them after a public comment period. State officials have emphasized the Cal Fire maps won’t affect property insurance ...

This, in turn, could have the positive effect of lowering insurance ... Cal Fire released the new draft maps only weeks after devastating fires ravaged Los Angeles County for over a week in ...

New fire hazard severity maps show dramatic increases in some areas of Sonoma and Napa counties and around San Jose. In Contra Costa County ... As far as insurance goes, Bachman said this could ...

1—Cal Fire has released a long-awaited set of updated maps outlining the fire hazard severity zones in Marin County and elsewhere ... The maps should not affect insurance rate decisions ...