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Plumas County publishes updated LRA fire-hazard maps; board directs outreach ahead of June ordinance deadline
Summary
Planning Director Tracy Ferguson presented Office of State Fire Marshal 2025 Local Responsibility Area (LRA) maps showing roughly 2,695 affected parcels in Quincy, Chester, East Quincy and Sierra Valley. The board directed public outreach and noted a June 10, 2025 ordinance deadline and July 10 transmission to the State Fire Marshal.
Planning Director Tracy Ferguson told the Plumas County Board of Supervisors on March 11 that the Office of State Fire Marshal’s updated 2025 Local Responsibility Area (LRA) fire-hazard maps will affect about 2,695 parcels in unincorporated Quincy, East Quincy, Chester and Sierra Valley and that the city of Portola’s limits are wholly within the LRA. The maps, posted to the county planning website, add “high” and “moderate” hazard categories to the LRA where previously only “very high” and non‑wildland (gray) existed.
Why it matters: parcels newly designated LRA‑high trigger material regulatory changes — most notably Chapter 7A of the building code for Wildland‑Urban Interface construction standards and an expanded natural‑hazard disclosure requirement for sellers — while LRA‑moderate carries few immediate code changes. Ferguson said the state’s methodology…
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