Wildfire Resources
Wildfire Resources For Napa, Solano & Contra Costa Property Owners
Free tools, guides, and educational resources to help you understand and prepare for wildfire risk.
During A Fire Event
Live Tools When It Matters Most
Real-time information sources trusted by fire agencies, first responders, and property owners across Northern California. Bookmark this page before fire season begins.
Cal Fire Active Incidents
Live map of every active wildfire in California, updated in real time with containment status, acreage, and evacuation orders from multiple sensors.
PG&E PSPS Map
Active & planned Public Safety Power Shutoffs by county. Essential during red flag warnings when power may be preemptively cut.
NWS Fire Weather
See all red flag warnings, fire weather watches, and current conditions across Northern California from the NWS Bay Area office.
PurpleAir Smoke Map
Real-time air quality readings from thousands of sensors, filtered specifically for wildfire smoke. Critical during regional events.
Emergency Alerts
Register For Your County's Alert System
Every property owner should be registered for their county’s alert system before fire season begins. Registration takes five minutes and provides direct notification of evacuations, road closures, and other critical events.
Napa Alert
Napa County’s official emergency notification system. Alerts by neighborhood for evacuations, air quality & public safety events.
AlertSolano
Solano County Office of Emergency Services notification system. Covers Benicia through Vacaville with rural community coverage.
Community Warning System
Contra Costa County’s countywide alert system. Covers Lamorinda, San Ramon Valley, and East County communities.
Preparing Your Property
Understand Your Risk Before Fire Season
The best time to prepare for wildfire is before red flag warnings begin. These official resources help you understand your property’s fire hazard designation, defensible space requirements, and structural hardening standards.
Fire Hazard Zone Lookup
Cal Fire’s official map of Very High, High, and Moderate Fire Hazard Severity Zones. Look up your property’s designation.
Defensible Space Guide
The official Cal Fire guide to Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2 requirements under California Public Resources Code 4291.
Home Hardening Basics
Cal Fire’s guide to ember resistant construction, Chapter 7A materials, and the six ignition points that matter most.
Ready, Set, Go!
California’s official three stage wildfire preparedness framework. Ready your property, get set for evacuation, go when told.
Emergency Alerts
Navigate The California Insurance Market
California’s wildfire insurance market has changed dramatically since 2020. These resources help property owners understand non-renewals, appeals, FAIR Plan applications, and the standards insurers now use to evaluate risk. Note: These resources do not constitute insurance advice, please consult an insurance carrier or your a qualified and registered insurance broker.
California Department Of Insurance
The state regulator’s official resources on non-renewals, premium disputes, consumer rights, and appeals processes.
California FAIR Plan
Last resort insurance coverage for properties in high risk areas that cannot secure standard homeowner or commercial policies.
IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home
The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety’s emerging standard for wildfire ready homes, increasingly referenced by carriers.
Local Fire Safe Councils
Community wildfire preparedness organizations serving Napa, Solano, and Contra Costa counties.
Additonal Services
Local Service Provider Service Awareness
Wildfire defense draws on specialists across disciplines. The resources below are related services and organizations working in and around our area that may be useful to know about as you plan your own property’s defense, from targeted grazing and Firewise community programs to county-level preparedness information.
Frontier Resource Management
Frontier Resource Management is a local Mendocino County family business. Our goal is to provide excellent service to the community through the development and stewardship of a healthy, productive forest.
Flexilis Forestry
With 46 years of professional forest management experience in the federal and private forest sector, Joe Reddan and Flexilis Forestry can be your forest management consultant.
Napa Pasture Protein
Napa Pasture Protein offers targeted grazing with managed livestock to reduce wildfire fuel loads on vineyards, estates, HOA common areas, and open space across Napa Valley. Goats and sheep clear brush, grass, and ladder fuels naturally where mechanical clearing is impractical or environmentally sensitive.
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Need Help Applying This To Your Property?
General guidance is useful, but every property is different. A professional wildfire risk assessment translates these resources into a specific action plan for your home, your vineyard, or your commercial building. Free consultation call, no obligation.