Bay Area “Red Flag” and Evacuation Warnings

Major fires still burn throughout the Bay Area with smoke and poor air quality affecting many other communities not yet directly threatened by fire.

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Please note this is an evolving news story and details below may change quickly.

Latest Evacuation Warnings & Orders

• @CALFIRELNU – North Bay
• @CALFIRECZU – Santa Cruz Mtns
• @calfireSCU – East Bay/South Bay
• @CalfireBEU – Central Coast
• Sonoma County

Fire Maps

• Sonoma County plus road closures & delays
• San Mateo & Santa Cruz County – Evacuation map
• Solano County – Evacuation map and shelters
• Statewide Fire Map from Cal Fire

Cal Fire Updates / Latest News & Fire Status

• SCU Lightning Complex – latest updates for Santa Clara County, Alameda County, Contra Costa County, San Joaquin County, and Stanislaus County
• LNU Lightning Complex – latest updates for Sonoma and Napa Counties
• CZU Lightning Complex – latest updates for San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties

Evacuation Centers

• Santa Cruz County – Santa Cruz County Fairground in Watsonville and Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz.
• San Mateo County – Half Moon Bay High School. (Previously it had been Pescadero High School)
• Solano County – Five shelters set up in and around Vacaville, one in Suisun City for Fairfield area.
• Napa County – Crosswalk Community Church, Napa
• Sonoma County – Temporary evacuation points set up in Santa Rosa, Healdsburg, Bodega Bay and Sebastopol.
• Cow Palace – Evacuation Site for Horses & Livestock

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Bay Area Fire Updates

Here are the latest fire updates

• Bay Area Dodges Thunderstorms, Red Flag Warning Expires – 8/24 at 9:59am
• SCU Lightning Complex Fire, 10% contained, now 3rd largest in California history – 8/24 at 9:44am
• LNU Fire Now 22% Contained – 8/24 at 8:33am
• City of Healdsburg west of 101 evacuation order – 8/22 at 10:30am
• Pacifica / Half Moon Bay close beaches due to wildfires, unhealthy air – 8/22 at 10:24am
• Interactive map shows evacuation zones in Sonoma County – 8/22 at 10:09am
• Five arrested on suspicion of looting in Santa Cruz County evacuation zone – 8/22 at 9:49am
• Google Maps is tracking the spread of America’s wildfires hour by hour – 8/22 at 9:44am
• Dramatic video shows helicopter rescue of firefighters in Point Reyes – 8/22 at 9:18am
• Evacuees flood Santa Cruz hotels as CZU Complex fire displaces 77,000 – 8/22 at 7am
• Bay Area fire crews fight to rescue people as fires spread unchecked – 8/22 at 6:31am
• Thunderstorms, dry lightning and erratic winds in weekend forecast – 8/22 at 5:20am
• Cow Palace is Now Evacuation Site for Horses & Livestock – 8/21 at 10:04pm
• Bay Area Wildfires Visible From Space – 8/21 at 6:21pm
• Monterey Zoo close to fire, but won’t evacuate yet – 8/21 at 11:04am
• See exact moment forest webcam consumed by fire in Santa Cruz County – 8/21 at 10:30am
• Alameda County Fairgrounds activated by as staging grounds for fire fighters – 8/21 at 10:04am
• Evacuation orders lifted for North Bay near Silverado and Hwy 29 – 8/21 at 9:52am
• San Mateo & Santa Cruz County Fires Grow 700 + Acres per Hour – 8/21 – 9:45am
• 230,000 Acre SCU Fire (Santa Clara / Alameda / Contra Costa) Now Contained 10% – 8/21 at 9:40am
• Point Reyes National Seashore wildfire expands to 2,100 acres – 8/21 at 7:59am
• Temporary Evacuation Shelter for Lake County at old airstrip off Hwy 53 in Clearlake – 8/21 at 6:53am
• Headquarters buildings at Big Basin Redwoods State Park are all burned to rubble – 8/21 at 4:04am
• Large Animal Shelter Opens for Fire Evacuees at Solano County Fairgrounds – 8/20 – 4:15pm
• Fire forces Gavin Newsom to cancel DNC speech – 8/20 at 12:40pm
• Bay Area Air Quality worst in the world on Wednesday – 8/20 at 12pm
• Santa Cruz tourists asked to leave to free up hotel rooms for evacuees – 8/20 at 11:15am
• Santa Cruz County: Felton mandatory evacuation order – 8/20 at 9:25am
• 105 homes burned so far, 25,000 threatened by North Bay fires – 8/20 at 9:04am
• incidents.readyforwildfire.org/ website for city-by-city wildfire alerts back up and running. – 8/20 at 8:12am
• SCU Complex (Alameda & Contra Costa Counties) fires grow to 137,475 acres overnight – 8/20 at 8am
• Fire burns Big Basin State Park’s historic buildings – 8/20 at 7:54am
• Full list of state parks closed due to fires – 8/20 at 12:26am
• Point Reyes wildfire grows to 1,100 acres, evacuation warning issued – 8/19 at 10:16pm
• Santa Clara County – Evacuation ordered for county east of San Jose city limits – 8/19 at 9:45pm
• I-80 reopened in both directions near Vacaville – 8/19 at 9:01pm
• 22,000 people have been evacuated from large section of southern San Mateo County. – 8/19 at 10pm
• Healdsburg issues evacuation warning – 8/19 at 8:27pm
• San Mateo County evacuation center moved from Pescadero to Half Moon Bay due to fire conditions – 8/19 at 8:16pm
• New grass fire near 580 in Oakland – 8/19 at 7:01pm
• Cal Fire’s “Accurate Wildfire Update” Website form appears to be broken – 8/19 at 6:52pm
• San Mateo Cty. – Evacuation center at Pescadero High School – 8/19 at 6:43pm
• Sonoma County Fire Map back online – 8/19 – 6:31pm
• List of evacuation orders and road closures – 8/19 at 5:47pm
• Sonoma Cty. – Evacuation warning all areas east of the Sonoma coast to the south fork of the Gualala River – 8/19 at 5:40pm
• Fire enters Big Basin Redwoods Park – 8/19 at 5:35pm
• Elevated fire concerns through Friday morning due to gusty winds – 8/19 – 5pm
• Most East Bay Regional Parks closed due to fires – 8/19 at 4:47pm
• I-80 shut down both directions east of Fairfield – 8/19 at 4:36pm
• Spare the air alert extended through Sunday, August 23 for San Francisco Bay Area – 8/19 at 4:03pm
• Temporary Evacuation Point set up at the old airstrip off of Hwy. 53 in Clearlake – 8/19 at 4pm
• Contra Costa Cty. – Evacuation orders for Morgan Territory & Mash Creek Road lifted – 8/19 at 3:45pm
• What to Pack in your Emergency Go Bag – 8/19 at 11:42am
• Bay Area Wildfires Visible from Space – 8/21 at 6:00pm

Updated News Resources

• Marin Independent Journal – Live blog of fire updates
• Mercury News – live blog

Governor Newsom says that the state is battling 367 known wildfires (and growing), caused mostly by over 10,000 lightning strikes in the past 72 hours. 23 of the 367 known fires are considered “major.”

Additionally, evacuation warnings have been issued for parts of Napa County, Sonoma County as well as for Santa Clara County

The “SCU Lightning Complex” is a series of approximately 20 separate fires that have broken out in parks of Contra Costa, Alameda and Santa Clara Counties covering about 85,000 acres. As of August 19th the fire is only 5% contained.

The “LNU” Lightning Complex” is a series of fires in Napa and Sonoma County covering approximately 46,000 acres with 0% contained as of August 19th

Please note this is an evolving news story and details may change quickly.

#LNULightningComplex – Evacuation Update – Sonoma County#CALFIRE#CALFIRELNU pic.twitter.com/QPMePKSvp3

— CAL FIRE LNU (@CALFIRELNU) August 19, 2020

#LNULightningComplex – 7 a.m. Incident Update 08-19-2020 pic.twitter.com/G1HedVQyfM

— CAL FIRE LNU (@CALFIRELNU) August 19, 2020