More than 2 million acres per land in California have been identified as a “tall” or “high” fire dangerous areas

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As a reflection of the increase in forest fires and updated scientific data, the new state cards set more than 2.3 million local land decares in California, facing a “high” or “very high” danger of forest fires.

After the devastating fires in Count Los Angeles Enforcement order last week. The previous state cards were published between 2007 and 2011.

In these jurisdictions, the fire services of the city or the county are the first to meet and apply fire safety standards. The areas designated as “tall” or “very high” would be the subject of the largest state standards for buildings resistant to forest fires.

Fire risks in California are increasing in part due to the droughts caused by the climate and the longer and more dangerous season of forest fire.

“We live in a new extreme reality. Create science and your own eyes: Mother Nature is changing the way we live and we must continue to adapt to these changes, “Newsom says in a press release announced the executive order. “California’s resistance means that we will continue to update our standards in the most frequent fire zones.”

In 2007, 800,000 decares of land of local responsibility were classified as a “very high” risk, the only category used at the time. The new cards now refer to 1.16 million acres as “tall” and 247,000 additional acres as “very tall”, according to Press release from the governor’s officeS Firefighters main officials said they could not judge what percentage of the total area covered until local authorities review and accept cards.

Cards posted on Monday They are applied only to the interior of Northern California: the counties Butt, Colusa, El Dorado, Glenn, Lake, Lassen, Modok, Nevada, Pleasure, Feather, Shasta, Sierra, Sisyu, Suther, Tahama and Juba. The remaining cards will be published in the next six weeks.

In some cases, the recycling of the “very high” risk surface is significant. For example, in 2011, Lake County has only five acres of land that is not included in the area while New list Posted on Monday identified 10 881 acres. Yreka traveled from 723 “very high” risk acres to 2613 acres in the last card, and Chico grew to almost 3000 acres, compared to 117 on the previous card. The surface of the valley of the grass doubled until Clearlake almost tripled.

On the other hand, some areas within the 16th districts, especially practice and redness, had better indicators: their surface in the highest risk category decreases significantly.

While the fire weight cards for local jurisdictions had more than a decade of antiquity, dangerous cards for 31 million acres under the responsibility of Cal Fire (almost one -third of the total state area) They were updated last yearS

In 2021 the legislature requested the acceptance of the three classes of the state For local responsibility areas: very high, high and moderate. Previously, only the highest designation in local jurisdictions was required.

Civil servants will notify 404 cities and counties about changes in the designation through a continuous regional schedule. The northern shore and the bay region will be published on February 24, those of the firefighters in Central Val. Once an updated card is published, local employees have four months to include recommendations for the new risk classification.

Newsom’s order also ordered the State Council for Forest to adopt rules that require five feet of embedding zone around the structures in the most serious fire zones.

The disturbing area aims to deal with the threat that the flames were dragged from the fire of wind light into a house that could be miles from the front of the fire. They are currently under development, called SO in zone 0 and would apply to new and existing buildings in the most serious areas. Newsom’s order states that the provisions are likely to be applied immediately to new structures, but will gradually be applied for three years in existing houses.

The fires have been Unusually active so far this yearWith 359 fires and almost 58,000 acres burned, compared to the average five years of 175 fires and 500 acres. They are also mortal: 29 people have died in fires since January.

Authorities said it was not a good omen for the rest of the year. “This will be 2025, unfortunately,” said Kal, Joe Tyler’s fire chief, while fires in the Los Angeles area are still burning. “I need everyone to be prepared.”

This article was originally published by CalmattersS