Is Something Burning?

Active wildfires near the valley right now, from CAL FIRE — and the official channels that decide evacuations.

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The official channels

Genasys Protect — look up your evacuation zoneType your address to find your zone name and its current status. LA County issues evacuation orders and warnings by these zones — learn yours before you need it.

CAL FIRE incidentsThe source this page reads, with maps and full incident detail.

LA County emergency informationCounty-level emergency updates, shelter locations and recovery information.

South Coast AQMD air quality complaintsFor smoke smell that turns out to be the landfill rather than a fire: 1-800-CUT-SMOG (1-800-288-7664), taken 24 hours a day.

Worth knowing

Smoke has two local answers

If you smell something burning and CAL FIRE shows nothing nearby, the other suspect is the Chiquita Canyon landfill in Castaic, where an underground chemical reaction has produced odors since 2023. That is an air-quality complaint, not a fire response: report it to South Coast AQMD at 1-800-CUT-SMOG (1-800-288-7664) or aqmd.gov/complaints, and see this site's Chiquita Canyon page for where things stand.

Why evacuations here move fast

Every canyon neighborhood — Sand, Placerita, Tick, Hasley, San Francisquito — is a wildland finger reaching into suburbia. The Hughes Fire went from roughly 50 acres to over 9,000 in about six hours in January 2025, and put about 30,000 people under evacuation orders the same day. That is why knowing your Genasys zone before fire season matters more than refreshing any page during one.

What this page reads, and what it misses

This page shows incidents from CAL FIRE's public feed. Small or fast-moving local responses handled by the LA County Fire Department can appear late or not at all, and acreage and containment figures lag the ground truth in a fire's first hours — one more reason official alerts, not this page, decide anything.