Fire safety: fire hazard severity zones.
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Overview
This bill aims to improve how California identifies and designates areas at risk from wildfires. It requires the State Fire Marshal to hold public workshops and gather comments before finalizing the designation of ‘moderate,’ ‘high,’ and ‘very high’ fire hazard severity zones. Local agencies must then adopt ordinances reflecting these zones, and the State Fire Marshal will review these designations every five years, potentially recommending changes. The bill also allows local agencies to increase the severity level of a hazard zone if a parcel contains multiple designations and requires documentation of local wildfire mitigation efforts.
Key provisions
- The State Fire Marshal must hold public workshops and gather written comments before finalizing fire hazard severity zone designations.
- Local agencies must adopt ordinances designating fire hazard severity zones within 120 days of receiving recommendations from the State Fire Marshal.
- Local agencies can increase the severity level of a hazard zone if a parcel contains multiple designations.
- The State Fire Marshal must review local responsibility area lands every five years and recommend changes.
- The State Fire Marshal must post preliminary designations and data on its website.
- Local agencies must transmit adopted ordinances to the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection.
- The State Fire Marshal must publish local ordinances on its website.
- A model ordinance will be created to standardize local agency procedures.
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