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Palm Desert adopts Cal Fire’s updated fire-hazard severity zone map
Summary
Council adopted an ordinance incorporating the Office of the State Fire Marshal’s 2025 fire hazard severity zones for local responsibility areas; staff said the maps require defensible-space and home-hardening measures and noted no areas in Palm Desert were classified as “very high.”
The Palm Desert City Council on June 12 adopted an ordinance recognizing the Office of the State Fire Marshal’s 2025 fire hazard severity zone maps for local responsibility areas in Riverside County, bringing the city into compliance with state law.
Daniel Hurtado, public safety analyst, told the council the updated maps — released March 24, 2025 — use modern modeling of fuels, topography and weather to designate wildfire hazard as moderate, high or very high. The state requires local…
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