A month after CalFire released new fire hazard maps, local agencies have reviewed them and, in some cases, proposed amendments. 

Santa Barbara County fire departments are not allowed to remove areas from the very high, high or moderate fire hazard severity zones, but can add areas based on local knowledge and fire history, according to county Fire Marshal Fred Tan. 

Maps also consider “terrain-specific hazards, sundowner wind patterns and evacuation complexities,” fire agencies said in a joint statement Wednesday. 

The City of Santa Barbara will be merging the new CalFire maps with its Community Wildfire Protection Plan, which had already identified some of the new high-fire hazard zones.

“The new maps show that more areas in Santa Barbara are now considered a hazard,” the city said in a statement this week.

“This includes parts of the Mesa neighborhood, especially near Cliff Drive and Flora Vista, and areas in the northern parts of San Roque and La Cumbre. New moderate, high and very high fire zones have been created by CalFire in these areas. The Fire Department will be incorporating these zones but will further align them with streets and neighborhoods.”

Local fire agencies are releasing the maps for public comment and have a few months to adopt the updated fire hazard severity zones.   

Properties in fire hazard zones will be subject to defensible space inspections from local fire departments, Tan said. New construction in high fire hazard zones has to comply with fire-resistant building standards.

Are you living in a fire hazard zone? Did the status change with the updated maps? 

Check your address on the interactive fire hazard zone map here.

You can also compare the current maps to the proposed new state maps.

Learn More About Local Fire Hazard Maps

City of Santa Barbara

View the maps and more information here.

City of Goleta

View the maps and more information here.

Carpinteria-Summerland Fire Protection District

View the maps and more information here.

Montecito Fire Department

View the maps and more information here.

Lompoc Fire Department

View the maps and more information here.

City of Solvang

View the maps and more information here.

City of Buellton

View the maps and more information here.

Santa Barbara County (including unincorporated areas)

View the maps and more information here. Email questions or comments to FireHazardSeverityZones@countyofsb.org.