California Code, Insurance Code - INS § 970

(a) The Wildfire Safety and Risk Mitigation Program is hereby established.

(b) The purpose of the program is to provide funding to one or more universities for the purpose of creating a research and educational center responsible for developing, demonstrating, and deploying a public wildfire catastrophe model that provides significant wildfire safety benefits to California communities and assists alignment of federal, state, and local wildfire risk reduction efforts.

(c) Projects eligible for a grant under this article include either of the following:

(d) For the purposes of this article, a “public wildfire catastrophe model” means a computerized process that uses the best available science to simulate potential property damage caused by major wildfires and has readily accessible documentation and programs, including, but not limited to, underlying data and algorithms, for use by public agencies, organizations, and individuals.