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    CAL FIRE Administrative Units

    Metadata Updated: July 23, 2025

    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 May 2023, it represents cdfadmin23_1. 

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 27, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from State of California

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 27, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date July 23, 2025
    Publisher CAL FIRE
    Maintainer
    Identifier 84efda02-d612-45a1-ad30-8f70a5e351a5
    Data First Published 2019-09-08T22:32:50.000Z
    Data Last Modified 2025-04-04T23:09:41.783Z
    Category Fire, Natural Resources
    Public Access Level public
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    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
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    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 e77648a2fc3a53ed17f409a34e579b4483cfc92f14f00f6eeb179a79e8262ec3
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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