The Los Angeles area is besieged by wildfires that have killed at least 25 people, destroyed thousands of structures and displaced more than 100,000 people. Fueled by strong winds known as the ...

The Los Angeles area is besieged by wildfires that have killed at least 10 people, destroyed thousands of structures and displaced more than 100,000 people. Fueled in part by strong winds known as ...

Non-SFHAs, which are moderate- to low-risk areas shown on flood maps as zones beginning with the letters B, C or X. These zones receive one-third of federal disaster assistance related to flooding ...

Turns out there are ways to change your flood zone designation with a LOMA – a Letter of Map Amendment – if you think you were mistakenly put into too hazardous a flood zone. There you can ...

The map specifically assesses fire hazard, rather than risk, the agency says. "The map is like flood zone maps, where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area ...