New bursts of yellow dot the hills of Mendocino County.
Smears of burnt orange now span the aqueduct near Bakersfield.
A fresh splash of crimson juts east of Chico like a fresh wound.
With the release of its fourth and final round of color-coded hazard maps this morning, California’s firefighting agency is showing just how much of the state is prone to wildfire — and how much that computationally-modeled danger zone has grown since the state issued its last round of local hazard maps more than a decade ago.
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With a few notable areas where the orange and red tide receded, like the hills above Berkeley and Oakland, territory deemed “high” or “very high” hazard exploded across the state, increasing by 168% since 2011.
All told, the size of these orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of Delaware.
That’s home to roughly 3.7 million people, according to a CalMatters analysis which combined the maps with finegrain population estimates from University of California researchers.
That means roughly 1-in-10 Californians are subje