Residents across Washington County are facing higher insurance premiums and coverage challenges after Utah released updated ...
The high-risk wildland-urban interface map released Dec. 18 is a requirement from new state law House Bill 48. The law, and accompanying fee area, aim to ensure residents are protecting themselves and ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Close to 60,000 structures across Utah are considered at "high risk" for being impacted by wildfires, putting some homeowners on the path to pay new fees, according to a new state map ...
The Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands unveiled the state’s new High-Risk Wildland Urban Interface map, a key component of House Bill 48 that was passed by the ...
The new law also requires the state to assess property fees within the high-risk wildland urban interface boundary to help ...
New legislation passed in 2025 mandated the creation of a plan to help Utahns living in high risk areas for wildfires.
The summer’s wildfire season in Utah is expected to tally more fires and more acreage burned than in the previous two years — but what surprised officials was how many fires were caused by human ...