Start with the fire department, not a statewide calendar. VCFPD covers most cities and unincorporated land. The City of Ventura and Fillmore have their own fire departments. Zone 0 is the first five feet. Statewide it is Proposed — not in force. Inside VCFPD, local Zone 0 is Required now for new buildings, additions, and new or refurbished landscape.
Enter your address to check it against the CAL FIRE Fire Hazard Severity Zone map. The same check helps show whether you sit in VCFPD, the City of Ventura, or another municipal fire department. County-level overlays take precedence over the statewide map where one applies.
The county's record
Ventura County's hazard map isn't theoretical. It was written twice in seven years, in two different places, and this site keeps each story where it belongs.
19,904 acres. 243 structures destroyed, 127 damaged, at least 83 of those homes in Camarillo Heights. A rekindled brush-clearing fire, driven back to life by Santa Ana winds, put roughly 14,000 residents under evacuation notices within a day.
Camarillo's page carries this story.
281,893 acres across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, the largest California wildfire on record at the time. 1,063 structures destroyed, more than 500 Ventura residences in a single night, agricultural losses over $171 million.
Ventura, Ojai, Santa Paula, and Fillmore carry this one.
The harbor map
The county's newest anchor event, and the reason Camarillo's hillsides read differently now.
The communities the largest fire in then-state history hit hardest, from the coast to the Santa Clara River valley.
Unincorporated communities inside the valley's confirmed Very High zone, under the Ventura County Fire Department.
Eastern cities with real, current designations and significant 2025-remap footprints, each told without an invented fire story.
What must I do?
The first five feet is the highest-leverage prevention. Combustible fences and gates touching the house, bark mulch against the foundation, woody shrubs under windows, firewood on the deck. The Thomas and Mountain fires were both ember-driven events. That band is Required now inside VCFPD for new buildings, additions, and new or refurbished landscape; Recommended now for existing homes; statewide Zone 0 is Proposed — not in force. Read the local status, or start with fences and gates and landscaping.
Who enforces it?
Most of the county answers to VCFPD / VCFD: Camarillo, Ojai, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Santa Paula, Port Hueneme, and unincorporated communities including Meiners Oaks and Oak View. Inside VCFPD, local Zone 0 is Required now for new buildings, additions, and new or refurbished landscape (March 1, 2025).
The City of Ventura has its own fire department and its own hazard-mapping process. Fillmore has its own fire department. VCFD Station 27 at 133 C St. serves unincorporated land near Fillmore and is a cooperator with the city's fire department; do not treat Fillmore city limits as VCFD family. If you are inside City of Ventura or Fillmore city limits, that municipal department is the AHJ. Statewide Zone 0 is Proposed — not in force.
Questions
VCFPD / VCFD serves Camarillo, Ojai, Moorpark, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Santa Paula, Port Hueneme, and unincorporated areas. The City of Ventura has its own fire department. Fillmore has its own fire department; Station 27 is a cooperator for unincorporated land near Fillmore. The 2025 remap put roughly 59,000 of 86,000 mapped parcels in Very High. Check the parcel.
No. As of September 19, 2026 there is no statewide Zone 0 regulation in force. AB 3074 directed the state to create an ember-resistant zone; the emergency filing was withdrawn September 8, 2026. Existing defensible space still applies. Inside VCFPD only, local Zone 0 is Required now for new buildings, additions, and new or refurbished landscape.
Required now: existing defensible space countywide, plus VCFPD Zone 0 for new buildings, additions, and new or refurbished landscape (March 1, 2025). Ordinance 34 says Zone 0 clearance at sale is still under review. Proposed — not in force: statewide Zone 0. Recommended now: clear the first five feet on existing homes.
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