San Diego County saw a nearly 9% decrease in acreage with “very high” fire hazard compared to 2011, Cal Fire reported this week in a release of new maps for areas under local and county fire ...

The Office of State Fire Marshal this week released updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for San Diego County, showing an increase in areas designated as “very high" fire risk. This is the ...

but decreased 13% in San Diego County. Five cities that had very-high fire zones in the 2011 map — Covina, Irwindale, Cathedral City, Desert Hot Springs, Palm Desert and Yucca Valley — had no ...