http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7534368-181/santa-rosas-devastated-coffey-park?gallery=7515439&artslide=8 http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7534368-181/santa-

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7534368-181/santa-rosas-devastated-coffey-park?gallery=7515439&artslide=8 http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/7534368-181/santa-rosas-de... "Surprising as it was to residents, the destruction of Coffey Park wasn’t a mystery to fire scientists. They view it as a rare, but predictable, event that has exposed flaws in the way fire risk is measured and mitigated in California. Because it was outside the officially mapped “very severe” hazard zone, more than five miles to the east, Coffey Park was exempt from regulations designed to make buildings fire resistant in high-risk areas. California fire officials developed hazard maps in the 2000s that for the first time, tied building codes to geographies based on risk. Max Moritz, a fire specialist with the University of California’s Cooperative Extension, said the maps were an important step forward in assessing fire danger. But the Coffey Park catastrophe has shown that the methodology, and the law underlying it, were too narrow."