CAL FIRE has a legal responsibility to provide fire protection on
all State Responsibility Area (SRA) lands, which are defined based on
land ownership, population density and land use. For example, CAL FIRE
does not have responsibility for densely populated areas, incorporated
cities, agricultural lands, or lands administered by the federal
government. The SRA dataset provides areas of legal responsibility for
fire protection, including State Responsibility Areas (SRA), Federal
Responsibility Areas (FRA), and Local Responsibility Areas (LRA). SRA
designations undergo a thorough 5 year review cycle, as well as annual
updates for incorporations/annexations, error fixes, and ownership
changes (automatic changes that do not require Board of Forestry
approval).
This dataset (SRA20_2) represents SRA status as of July 2020.
This dataset is largely consistent with SRA20_1, with the exception of:
* Changes approved by the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection as part of the 2020 SRA Review.