Local officials discuss wildfire safety, new hazard maps after L.A. blazes

Fire hazard severity zones in new draft hazard maps, as identified by the state fire marshal. Light and dark yellow are moderate-hazard zones, light and dark orange are high-hazard zones, and light and shaded red are very-high-hazard zones. There are no high- or very-high-hazard zones on the contiguous Tiburon Peninsula. (via Cal Fire)

In a fire-preparedness event that drew nearly 100 residents last week, local public-safety officials emphasized preventive measures while reassuring attendees that the Tiburon Peninsula faces relatively low wildfire risk due to its fog layer and moisture. That assertion was backed up by new draft revisions to Cal Fire’s hazard maps for 125 coastal cities from the Bay Area to the Oregon border, released a day earlier.

Those maps show that most of the peninsula is designated a lower hazard area — including the entire city of Belvedere — while the Tiburon ridge, uplands and Paradise Drive areas spanning the peninsula are now designated moderate hazard areas for the first time, from the Eagle Rock and Bayview Terrace neighborhoods to Upper Via Los Altos, Tiburon Crest, parts of Reedland Woods and Belveron East, to Ring Mountain, Paradise Cay, Seafirth and Marinero, and across the Old St. Hilary’s Open Space Preserve to Hill Haven and upper parts of Old Tiburon.

There are no high-hazard areas anywhere on the contiguous peninsula, as only Angel Island — the site of a 2008 blaze that burned 400 of its 740 acres — is a very-high-hazard zone.

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