Hmm. Turns out getting good comparable maps for where the fire is and has been is hard.
CalFire website is okay for showing where the fire currently is. See image below.
My takeaway from the current map is that currently there isn’t any fire that close to SF or Berkeley/Oakland area. The “prepare to evacuate” warning for Berkeley Hill would seem to be preemptive rather than fire is already at the threshold. If you’re risk-averse, I think fire in the Berkeley Hills would be your trigger to get out, with more caution the closer you live to the hills.
Not knowing more about fire than anyone else, I’d be surprised if the very large fires would actually cross so much distance to get us. Instead, I’m guessing the risk is of a fire starting up in the hills, nearby, and getting really out of control? Seems less likely.
I was beginning to make my own crappy maps to do some comparisons. The two very large fire complexes this year seem much closer to where we live than the largest fires of 2017 and 2018. See second image for 2018 fires. You can see the second image showing the major fires is zoomed out much more relative to the 2020/right now one where those massive fires are simultaneously happening close to us.
Hmm. Turns out getting good comparable maps for where the fire is and has been is hard.
CalFire website is okay for showing where the fire currently is. See image below.
My takeaway from the current map is that currently there isn’t any fire that close to SF or Berkeley/Oakland area. The “prepare to evacuate” warning for Berkeley Hill would seem to be preemptive rather than fire is already at the threshold. If you’re risk-averse, I think fire in the Berkeley Hills would be your trigger to get out, with more caution the closer you live to the hills.
Not knowing more about fire than anyone else, I’d be surprised if the very large fires would actually cross so much distance to get us. Instead, I’m guessing the risk is of a fire starting up in the hills, nearby, and getting really out of control? Seems less likely.
I was beginning to make my own crappy maps to do some comparisons. The two very large fire complexes this year seem much closer to where we live than the largest fires of 2017 and 2018. See second image for 2018 fires. You can see the second image showing the major fires is zoomed out much more relative to the 2020/right now one where those massive fires are simultaneously happening close to us.
https://wildfire.cr.usgs.gov/firehistory/viewer/viewer.htm may help for historical information.