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CAL FIRE Administrative Units

Metadata Updated: July 23, 2025

This service is a latest depiction of CAL FIRE's 21 Units and 6 Contract Counties.Throughout the state, CAL FIRE has 21 operational units that are designed to address fire suppression over a certain geographic area. Each unit operates within their local jurisdiction and strives to fulfill the department's mission whether it be responding to all-risk emergencies, participating in fire safety education and educating homeowners on how to keep their property fire safe. In addition, CAL FIRE provides funding to six 'Contract Counties' (Kern, Los Angeles, Marin, Orange, Santa Barbara and Ventura) for fire protection services, including wages of suppression crews, lookouts, maintenance of fire fighting facilities, fire prevention assistants, pre-fire management positions, dispatch, special repairs, and administrative services. The Department's budget also provides for infrastructure improvements, and expanded fire fighting needs when fires grow beyond initial attack.Contract Counties are responsible for providing initial response to fires on SRA. When a wildland fire escapes this initial attack, CAL FIRE responds with fire fighting resources to assist the county.This service represents the latest official version of the CAL FIRE Administrative Units dataset, and is updated whenever a new version is released. As of June, 2019 it represents cdfadmin19_1.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025
Publisher CAL FIRE
Maintainer
Identifier df53288b-3c0f-47ca-8373-fc0f832de8af
Data First Published 2018-06-12T18:51:42.000Z
Data Last Modified 2025-03-06T01:20:10.000Z
Category Fire, Natural Resources
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id 29e8e678-441d-4113-9902-ed2fd8c7ca0d
Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 6845d379f7d0783ee1b626faa7f29bba994eac61950c77579a25d53aed44df9d
Source Schema Version 1.1

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