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Yucaipa adopts state wildfire severity maps into safety element; urgency ordinance enacted

5491350 · July 29, 2025
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Summary

Council adopted an urgency ordinance to incorporate the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s updated fire-hazard severity maps into the city safety element and to align associated building-code provisions for very high, high and moderate fire-severity zones.

The City Council voted unanimously on July 28 to adopt an urgency ordinance (No. 4-59U) and introduce ordinance No. 4-59 to incorporate the state’s updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps into the city’s general-plan safety element and to align local building-code requirements accordingly.

City staff told the council the state’s revised maps add a “moderate” severity…

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