Cal Fire is busy identifying the areas statewide that are most vulnerable to severe wildfires, updating the agency's fire hazard severity zones map for the first time since 2007.
"All of the fire history that we've been able to collect over the last five years will be plugged into our 100 years of fire data to help us better and more accurately depict an area's hazard," says Cal Fire Deputy Chief Daniel Berlant.
"Year after year, it definitely seems like the risk is going up -- a little bit more, a little bit more," says homeowner Amanda Follmar. "Year after year, it definitely seems like the risk is going up -- a little bit more, a little bit more," she said.
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