AB-2473 • 2026

Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center: forecasted extreme, life-threatening fire weather conditions.

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Committee on Emergency Management (A) - (Assembly Members Ransom (Chair), Bains, Bennett, and Calderon)
Last action: 2026-04-14
Official status: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill authorizes the proclamation of a state or local emergency based on information contained in a report, but it does not explicitly allow for such proclamations to be made solely based on the analysis from the center's reports.

Wildfire Forecast Center: Extreme Weather Alerts

This law requires the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center to recommend emergency proclamations based on extreme fire weather forecasts, share information with agencies, create reports for impacted areas, and train emergency managers.

What This Bill Does

Requires the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center to suggest declaring a state or local emergency when there are forecasted dangerous wildfire conditions.
Instructs the center to work with weather services and warning centers to spread information about extreme fire weather forecasts widely among agencies that need it.
Makes the center responsible for creating detailed reports on severe fire weather conditions and sharing them with relevant authorities in affected areas.
Requires the center to develop training programs to help operational area managers understand report information and take necessary actions.

Who It Names or Affects

The Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center
Local government officials who can declare emergencies
Emergency management agencies in California

Terms To Know

Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center: A state agency that predicts wildfires and provides guidance to other agencies.
State of Emergency: A declaration by the Governor when there is a disaster or extreme danger to people's safety.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how often these reports will be created.
It doesn't detail what actions emergency managers must take after receiving training and information from the center.
There are no details on who pays for creating and distributing the training programs.

Bill History

2026-04-14 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-04-08 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on E.M.
2026-04-07 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.M. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-09 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on E.M.
2026-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2473, as amended, Committee on Emergency Management.
Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center:
emergency proclamation recommendation.
forecasted extreme, life-threatening fire weather conditions.
Existing law, the California Emergency Services Act, requires the Office of Emergency Services and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to jointly establish and lead the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center, which serves as the state’s central organizing hub for, among other things, wildfire forecasting. Existing law requires the center to, among other things, provide specified intelligence and guidelines about wildfire threats to government agencies and designated alerting authorities.
Existing law authorizes the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency, and local officials and local governments to proclaim a local emergency, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist, and authorizes the Governor or the appropriate local government to exercise certain
powers in response to that emergency.
This bill would require the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center to proactively
recommend, based on extreme, life-threatening fire weather forecasts, whether a state of emergency or local emergency should be proclaimed, as specified.
coordinate with the National Weather Service and the California State Warning Center to share forecasted extreme, life-threatening fire weather conditions to ensure wide distribution of information for all potentially impacted agencies.
The bill would require the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center to create a written report that contains
specified information analyzing forecasted extreme, life-threatening fire weather conditions and disseminate it to the California State Warning Center. The bill would require the California State Warning Center to proactively disseminate the report and related information to operational area duty officers and public safety answering points within the geography of an impacted area. The bill would authorize the proclamation of a state of emergency or local emergency based on the information contained in a report, as specified.
This bill would require the Wildfire Forecast and Threat Intelligence Integration Center to create and disseminate a training program for operational areas to interpret the analysis of the reports described above and educate the operational area emergency managers on the urgency, information, and potential actions to take upon receipt of a report.

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