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Fire Hazard Severity Zone Viewer

Metadata Updated: September 23, 2025

Pursuant to Public Resource Code 4202, The State Fire Marshal shall classify lands within State Responsibility Areas into fire hazard severity zones. Each zone shall embrace relatively homogeneous lands and shall be based on fuel loading, slope, fire weather, and other relevant factors present, including areas where winds have been identified by the department as a major cause of wildfire spread. Per Government Code 51178, The State Fire Marshal shall identify areas in the state as moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones based on consistent statewide criteria and based on the severity of fire hazard that is expected to prevail in those areas. Moderate, high, and very high fire hazard severity zones shall be based on fuel loading, slope, fire weather, and other relevant factors including areas where winds have been identified by the Office of the State Fire Marshal as a major cause of wildfire spread. This application contains a feature service that represents FHSZ in SRA as effective April 1, 2024 and FHSZ in LRA as recommended March 24, 2025, in addition to other layers to provide spatial and jurisdictional context. 

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Dates

Metadata Created Date September 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 23, 2025
Publisher CAL FIRE
Maintainer
Identifier 8f59ea27-6a4c-4c91-9d41-eae518b1ef0e
Data First Published 2024-04-02T17:43:13.000Z
Data Last Modified 2025-08-25T17:25:43.000Z
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 6d158202-a0b1-41bb-adaf-134a7bf8c86e
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 80dce130ce9d1820533d53879fa6c86df10e524f4eecba3a0c3fcebc2adcdb1f
Source Schema Version 1.1

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