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Council adopts updated 2025 fire hazard severity zone map; division chief outlines inspection and education steps
Summary
The council adopted CAL FIRE's updated 2025 Fire Hazard Severity Zone map for Pacific Grove, expanding areas designated very-high/high and prompting stepped defensible-space inspections and outreach.
The City Council adopted an ordinance repealing and replacing the local code section that incorporates CAL FIRE's 2025 Fire Hazard Severity Zone map for Pacific Grove. The updated map increases acreage in high and very-high hazard zones and triggers annual defensible-space inspections in those mapped areas.
City Manager Matt Mogensen and Division Chief Justin Cooper (Monterey Fire Department) told council the state maps are based on terrain, vegetation and ember cast modeling and are intended to inform defensible-space standards and disclosures for properties. Cooper said, "Currently all parcels in the…
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