Fire map: live status.
Where it is, containment and evacuation zones, checked against satellite heat, CAL FIRE and the county.
- Check your zone above — a warning means pack and be ready, an order means go now
- Register for county alerts; this map follows them, it does not replace them
- Leave early if you have animals, a trailer, or anyone slow to move
- Keep the roads near the fire clear for engines
- Don’t. Not to look, not to photograph, not to “just drive past”
- Plan around the fire area; the rest of the coast is usually open
- Never stop on the road for a picture of smoke
- Drones ground the air attack. Flying one near a fire is a federal crime
Evacuation zones come from the CalOES statewide feed, the same source the evacuation apps read, and refresh every 3 minutes. They are the Sheriff's wording, shown as issued. The shaded fire area is where MODIS and VIIRS satellites detected heat, not an official fire line — the real edge will differ, and an unshaded road is not a safe one. Businesses and buildings along the coast road are drawn from OpenStreetMap so you can see what sits where relative to the burn. Buildings within 7 miles of the fire edge are picked out in blue purely so they are findable against everything else — that colour is not a damage report, a threat ranking or an evacuation boundary. A pin means a place exists there — it is not a claim that it is open, reachable, evacuated or undamaged, and we do not track that. Ring ahead before you rely on any of it. Acreage and containment come from CAL FIRE. Official perimeters, once flown, come from NIFC. For evacuation orders always follow CAL FIRE and Monterey County alerts, and read BigSurKate for the local picture.