Residents criticized the updated Cal Fire map amid fire insurance concerns but Mission Viejo City Councilmembers explained ...

The study, "Multi-hazard risk in socially vulnerable communities ... The study also emphasizes regional differences in environmental and demographic risk factors that amplify the importance ...

Fire risk uses hazard as a starting point and takes into account the protection measures, such as home hardening and maintaining defensible space, that communities and property owners have taken.

The map specifically assesses fire hazard, rather than risk, the agency says. "The map is like flood zone maps, where lands are described in terms of the probability level of a particular area ...

Fire officials emphasize that the maps are intended to show hazard, not risk — like flood-zone maps that show the probability an area will be submerged, rather than the effects of submersion.