The second online mapping tool is the Fire Information for Resource Management Systems map, or FIRMS, which uses data from the Forest Service of the United States Department of Agriculture and NASA.

Follow wildfire updates in North and South Carolina, where blazes erupted over the weekend. The largest stemmed from a forest ...

The Observatory narrowly escaped being consumed by wildfire as fire crews worked overnight to beat back flames in the foothills above east San Jose. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group) New maps ...

The maps, last updated in 2011, will inform new land-use and building regulations focused on fire safety. While the new regulations may eventually lower insurance premiums for some homeowners ...

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 ...