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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

Beautiful special section in today’s LA Times with some thoughtful pieces about how we ought to rethink our relationship with fire. Read it here: www.latimes.com/california/s...

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Cal Fire has been steadily growing its ranks for years (thanks to increasing funding from the state government). As of this July, Cal Fire has 12,223 employees, beating 2024’s peak of 11,754.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Last night’s sunset lighting up the smoke from the Dragon Bravo fire at the Grand Canyon While fire crews work tirelessly along the North Rim to contain the blaze, life is continuing pretty much as usual for tourists along the (more popular) South Rim

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

California’s state fire department just released a cool new dataset 👀 How long does it take a forest to recover after a fire? See for yourself: experience.arcgis.com/experience/a...

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Watched police remove climate protestors in copenhagen this morning (I was on a run) The group, Nødbremsen (which translates to “The Emergency Brake”) is protesting rising public transit fares amid a nearly $5 billion project to expand highways: www.noedbremsen.dk

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

FEMA refused to test residents’ soil in the Eaton and Palisades burn areas for potentially hazardous fire contaminants. So, we did it ourselves. Read our full investigation for @latimes.com here: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Fire departments across the state regularly inspect properties in higher hazard zones to make sure they comply with defensible space requirements. Violators are subject to fees and, in extreme cases, a misdemeanor charge.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The biggest lifts for homeowners are the defensible space and home hardening requirements in the higher hazard zones. The home hardening building codes only kick in for new construction:

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

First — do you live in a zone? LA Times map wizard @sean-greene.bsky.social has you covered.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The San Jose area was hit hard. When the legislature required Cal Fire to make these maps, it extended fire safety regulations for "very high" zones into the "high" zones. Much of the developed land pushing into Diablo Range and toward the coastal redwoods fall in this new zone.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

However, the east bay area, including Berkeley and Oakland saw significant decreases. Cal Fire wouldn't comment on specific cities, but pointed to new data, modeling methods and the development of wildlands into suburban/urban areas as significant causes of change.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Wildfire is scary. The LA fires are a reminder that virtually no one in this state is free of fire risk. So, every week, our stellar team of @latimes.com reporters will help you get a little more prepared for the next one with our new newsletter. Sign up here: www.latimes.com/archives/sig...

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The new Cal Fire maps are just for the areas where local fire departments are responsible for responding to blazes (Local Responsibility Areas). The agency released maps for the land where Cal Fire is responsible for putting out fires (State Responsibility Areas) back in 2023.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Redding also saw a decrease in its "very high" zone, but the new "high" zone — that the state will now expand many regulations into — more than makes up for that decrease.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

The one exception? Placerville, California. Many cities saw increases because Cal Fire used more up to date climate and extreme weather data — and it's the first time they've mapped the "high" zone. Right now, it's unclear why Placerville saw such a large decrease.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Out of the 35 cities and towns Cal Fire mapped, all but one saw increases in the number of acres in the two highest zones where most heightened fire regulations apply. Chico and Truckee saw the biggest increases from the 2011 zones (Graphics by the incredible @sean-greene.bsky.social)

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

On today’s @latimes.com front page, our story on what Cal Fire missed in its fire hazard modeling for Altadena: www.latimes.com/environment/...

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Here's Cal Fire's zoning compared to First Street's fire risk assessment and the Eaton perimeter. Cal Fire's mapping only currently uses one ranking whereas First Street's uses a scale. The state agency says its maps are designed to determine where regulations apply, not to inform the public:

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The last is PCH & Coastline, and the first three are just east/south of that along PCH:

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Hi Erinn, Here’s what I have from around Castellammare/the Villa:

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

In many locations, the fire jumped over the highway and destroyed homes along the coast. PCH staples the Reel Inn and Moonshadows Malibu have been reduced to rubble.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

As of 4 p.m. fire fighters were still battling large structural fires along the highway

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Scenes from the Pacific Coast Highway today🧵… So many of the iconic homes and landmarks — stretching all the way from Will Rogers to Carbon beach — are just … gone.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

obsessed with how the new KBBQ place in my hometown determines who gets the children’s discount

A screenshot of the policy, which reads: $39 per person, $19 for children under 4 feet tall, Free for children under 3 and a half feet tall

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Cool graph: Support for more nuclear plants in the U.S. by party and age. Older Rs are motivated U.S. nuclear competitiveness, while younger Rs worry more about sticker price. Older Dems worry about enviro concerns and safety, while younger Dems are focused on climate change.

Today, younger Republicans are 11% less likely to support new nuclear plants in the U.S. than their older counterparts. Meanwhile the opposite is true for the left: Younger Democrats are 9% more likely to support new nuclear than older Democrats, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center.

As a result, while Republicans older than 65 are 27% more likely to support nuclear energy than their Democratic peers, Republicans age 18 to 29 are only 7% more likely to support it than their Democratic counterparts.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Support for nuclear energy is rising in the U.S. — but while younger Dems are more likely to support the technology than older Dems, the opposite is true for Republicans. On the front page of today's @latimes.com, I break down these cross-cutting cultural currents:

The front page of the Los Angeles Times for Nov. 22, 2024. The headline reads: "Nuclear power gets a fresh look from younger people"

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

#WildlifeWednesday is a thing on here?? In that case, here’s Yosemite from last week 😌

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

On Thursday afternoon, Newsom surveyed damage from the Mountain Fire with CAL FIRE officials. Hours later, he declared a state of emergency in Ventura County.

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Noah Haggerty @nohaggerty.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hey Bluesky! I’m a science and environment reporter at @latimes.com. Follow for the latest on how California is working to meet its conservation and clean energy goals, protect residents against wildfires and stay a global leader in science 🔭🧬🌴🔥

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