California, in beta.

A California parcel — by map click, address, or county assessor's parcel number — gets a per-domain, worst-tier-wins diligence read over mapped state hazard programs and public records: CGS Alquist-Priolo and Seismic Hazard zones, CAL FIRE Fire Hazard Severity Zones, FEMA flood, the State tsunami hazard area, the Coastal Act coastal zone, Important Farmland and Williamson Act maps, National Wetlands Inventory wetlands, ESA critical habitat, DTSC EnviroStor and SWRCB GeoTracker contamination records, county zoning where KILO has a verified source (Riverside, Kern, Sacramento, Stanislaus, Tulare, Marin, Napa, San Benito, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Inyo and Mariposa counties, and the cities of Los Angeles, Sacramento, Fresno, Riverside, Visalia, Rancho Cucamonga, Hayward, Orange, Long Beach, Perris, Ventura, San Marcos, Fairfield, Livermore, Pleasanton, Redlands, Carlsbad, Eastvale, Milpitas, Whittier, Monterey Park and Pittsburg, today), and the CEQA / AB 52 / CHRIS-records process a project will face — every finding cited to the layer or statute it came from. It carries no cultural read: KILO has no California knowledge base, holds no CHRIS or Sacred Lands File data, and will not build a sensitivity surface. The cultural line in a California read is a process pointer, and the top line always says so.

Six domains, each cited.

The single worst domain sets the headline tier; it is never averaged, and there is no score. Every domain names the layer or statute it read and, where the source could not be read, says so — a layer that could not be checked is never reported as a layer that came back empty.

• SeismicCalifornia Geological Survey regulatory zones: Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zones and Seismic Hazard Zones for liquefaction and earthquake-induced landslide. Where the CGS has not yet evaluated an area, the read says so — not yet mapped is never reported as not in a zone.
• FireOffice of the State Fire Marshal / CAL FIRE Fire Hazard Severity Zones on the 2024 statewide map — Very High, High or Moderate — with the responsibility area, so the building-permit obligations that follow the class are stated up front.
• FloodFEMA National Flood Hazard Layer: the mapped zone, whether the parcel sits inside the Special Flood Hazard Area, and the base flood elevation where FEMA has published one.
• TsunamiThe Tsunami Hazard Area the California Geological Survey and Cal OES map for evacuation planning: inside it, outside it, or outside the coast the State has mapped — three answers, so an unmapped stretch is never read as outside the hazard area.
• Coastal zoneWhether the parcel is in the Coastal Act coastal zone or within about 150 m of its line, and the Coastal Commission's Local Coastal Program segment at the point — certified or not — so the read says who issues the coastal development permit.
• FarmlandThe Department of Conservation's Important Farmland category (Farmland Mapping and Monitoring Program, 2022) and whether the land is mapped as enrolled in a Williamson Act contract (2025), with the county's participation in the program — and the CEQA and contract-cancellation steps each one attaches.
• WetlandsThe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory at the parcel point and within about 50 m, with the wetland type and its Cowardin classification. The inventory is a planning map, not a delineation, and the read says so.
• Critical habitatEndangered Species Act critical habitat designated or proposed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service or NOAA Fisheries at the parcel point, and NOAA-designated stream reaches within about 100 m, naming the listed species each designation is for. A designation is not a species survey, and the read says so.
• ContaminationDTSC EnviroStor cleanup sites and hazardous-waste facilities, and SWRCB GeoTracker LUST, cleanup-program and military sites, within 500 m of the parcel — each named with its program, status and distance. Site coordinates never leave the server.
• ZoningCounty zoning on record, read from the county's own service, for unincorporated land in Riverside, Kern, Sacramento, Stanislaus, Tulare, Marin, Napa, San Benito, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Inyo and Mariposa counties. Where the county publishes a description of the zone, the read shows the county's own words. Every California read also says whether the parcel is inside an incorporated city or on unincorporated county land, from the state's own city and county boundary record, so a parcel inside a city names that city and its planning department rather than showing a blank. Where the county map still shows a county zone on land a city has annexed, the read cites the boundary filing and says the city's zoning applies. Inside the cities of Los Angeles, Sacramento, Fresno, Riverside, Visalia, Rancho Cucamonga, Hayward, Orange, Long Beach, Perris, Ventura, San Marcos, Fairfield, Livermore, Pleasanton, Redlands, Carlsbad, Eastvale, Milpitas, Whittier, Monterey Park and Pittsburg the read shows the city's own zoning map instead, in the city's words; other cities' zoning is not read in the beta.
• Environmental reviewCEQA and AB 52 as the process steps a project will face, each with the statute behind it, and the CHRIS records search as the first thing a lead agency will ask for. A parcel screen reports the process; the determination belongs to the agency.

The cultural axis is not read — by design.

KILO was built in Hawaiʻi, the hardest cultural-compliance market in the country, under one discipline: never turn a silent record into reassurance, never rank parcels by a cultural criterion, and never hold a record the product is not entitled to hold. That restraint travels to California unchanged. With AB 52 live and project-delaying, it is also the only honest way to read a parcel without a cultural knowledge base: the read tells you which process a project will be asked to run, and leaves the finding to the Information Center, the Native American Heritage Commission and the lead agency.

• No cultural read. KILO holds no California cultural knowledge base, no CHRIS site records, no Sacred Lands File results, and no tribal cultural resource data — and it will not build a sensitivity surface from any of them. The cultural line in a California read is a process pointer, and the top line of every read says so.
• No cultural absence, ever. A silent cultural line means KILO did not read that axis; it is never a finding that nothing is there. The same rule holds for every layer: a record that is absent from the layers read is a statement about the layers, not about the ground.
• No CNDDB (it is license-fenced) and no CEQAnet attachment contents. What KILO does not hold, it cannot leak.

Statewide parcels; zoning in thirteen counties and twenty-two cities.

Parcels resolve statewide from the California Statewide Parcels public view, and the seismic, fire, flood and contamination layers are statewide programs. County zoning is read where KILO has verified the county's own service — Riverside, Kern, Sacramento, Stanislaus, Tulare, Marin, Napa, San Benito, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Inyo and Mariposa counties today, unincorporated land only — and inside the City of Los Angeles the city's own zoning map is read, with the General Plan land use designation, Community Plan Area, specific plan and Historic Preservation Overlay Zone at the point; inside Sacramento, Fresno, Riverside, Visalia, Rancho Cucamonga, Hayward, Orange, Long Beach, Perris, Ventura, San Marcos, Fairfield, Livermore, Pleasanton, Redlands, Carlsbad, Eastvale, Milpitas, Whittier, Monterey Park and Pittsburg the city's zone is read from the city's own map, in the city's own words. Every other county and city reads as not read, with the planning department to ask named. A point on a road or right-of-way is read at the point with no parcel record, as it is in Hawaiʻi.

What "beta" means here.

A scope statement, not a quality disclaimer. Each of these is printed on the read itself, so a report never implies an affordance it does not carry.

• EXPORT PDF, a read-only share link, the Due Diligence Brief and the Presentation Summary work the same way they do for a Hawaiʻi read, in the California read's own terms: bands, never a score.
• No market screener, acquisition criteria or Site Planner on a California read. A California parcel can be watched, run in a batch and tracked as a project, in the California read's own terms: bands, never a score.
• The Kilo+ assistant answers market questions only on a California read; every cultural question is referred to the CHRIS Information Center, the NAHC and the lead agency's AB 52 consultation.
• County zoning in thirteen counties (Riverside, Kern, Sacramento, Stanislaus, Tulare, Marin, Napa, San Benito, Santa Barbara, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Inyo, Mariposa), unincorporated land only, plus the cities of Los Angeles, Sacramento, Fresno, Riverside, Visalia, Rancho Cucamonga, Hayward, Orange, Long Beach, Perris, Ventura, San Marcos, Fairfield, Livermore, Pleasanton, Redlands, Carlsbad, Eastvale, Milpitas, Whittier, Monterey Park and Pittsburg inside their city limits; no other city's zoning yet. Statewide parcels, hazard, flood, coastal, farmland, wetland, critical-habitat, public water system and contamination maps. Soils are not yet read for California parcels.
• The Terms of Service and KILO's California legal posture are under review; the read is advisory, and every finding names the agency to confirm it with.

Same plans, same allotments.

A California read uses the same plans and included assessments as a Hawaiʻi read; re-opening a parcel you already read this period is free. Before a click would spend an assessment on a new parcel, the app tells you first — the same rule as in Hawaiʻi. See the plans →

A second jurisdiction on the same instrument.

Hawaiʻi stays the lead: the cultural read is the product, and it does not travel. California is a narrower read on the same instrument, labeled as such on every page it appears on. You bring the parcels; KILO brings the read — and in California, the read tells you exactly how far it goes.

Sources read in the beta: California Geological Survey (Alquist-Priolo and Seismic Hazard Zone maps); Office of the State Fire Marshal / CAL FIRE (Fire Hazard Severity Zones, 2024); FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer; CGS / Cal OES Tsunami Hazard Area; the California coastal zone boundary and the Coastal Commission's Local Coastal Program segments; Department of Conservation Important Farmland and Williamson Act enrollment; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Wetlands Inventory and critical habitat; NOAA Fisheries critical habitat; DTSC EnviroStor; SWRCB GeoTracker; county zoning from Riverside County TLMA, Kern County Planning and Natural Resources, Sacramento County, Stanislaus County Planning, Tulare County, the Marin County Community Development Agency, Napa County Planning, Building and Environmental Services, San Benito County, Santa Barbara County Planning and Development, the County of San Mateo, the County of Santa Cruz, the Inyo County Planning Department and Mariposa County; Los Angeles City Planning (zoning, General Plan land use, Community Plan Areas, specific plans and HPOZs); the zoning maps of the cities of Sacramento, Fresno, Riverside, Visalia, Rancho Cucamonga, Hayward, Orange, Long Beach, Perris, Ventura, San Marcos, Fairfield, Livermore, Pleasanton, Redlands, Carlsbad, Eastvale, Milpitas, Whittier, Monterey Park and Pittsburg; CDTFA city and county boundaries and the Board of Equalization boundary filings by roll year; CAL FIRE California Statewide Parcels. Statutes cited: PRC §21080 (CEQA), PRC §21080.3.1 (AB 52), PRC §5097.94 (NAHC), Gov. Code §7927.005 (CHRIS records).