Wildland-urban interface maps also establish building-code requirements, such as building materials used in the construction of new buildings in designated fire-risk zones. Van Son said the ...

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection has a new interactive mapping tool to visualize urban tree canopy across California. This tool was developed in partnership with the USDA ...

Wildfire risks are especially high on the "wildland-urban interface," the areas where ... s wildland firefighting resources were sent to California, so she was relieved when a helicopter landed ...

Abaie and her neighbors worried that many of the region’s wildland firefighting resources were sent to California ... about 1,000 acres of wildland urban interface and required a multi-agency ...

In the midst of a dry winter, images of the California wildfires struck fear in the hearts of Arizonans. Some cities are more ...

His new regulation will effectively force ratepayers and taxpayers across California ... development and wildland vegetation — technically called the wildland-urban interface, or WUI — rose ...

While California’s Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) codes (CBC Chapter ... as per CalFire Fire Hazard Severity Zone Maps and the California Fire Code, must have 100 feet of defensible open space ...