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Council adopts CAL FIRE’s 2025 hazard-severity maps for San Leandro; defers stronger mandates
Summary
Alameda County Fire recommended and the council adopted updated CAL FIRE 2025 wildfire hazard-severity maps that replace 2009 ‘very high’ zones with new ‘high’ and ‘moderate’ categories; staff and fire officials recommended education-first strategies and left open future adoption of more stringent defensible-space requirements.
Alameda County Fire Division Chief Paige Buie briefed the San Leandro City Council on May 19 about CAL FIRE’s 2025 hazard-severity mapping update and recommended replacing the city's 2009 ordinance references to the old map with a new ordinance referencing the 2025 maps. Buie said CAL FIRE’s new mapping uses modern fire-science modeling and now differentiates among moderate, high and very high hazard bands; the updated map shows no parcels within the city labeled 'very high' but increases the total parcels affected (the staff presentation cited 627 parcels in the…
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