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The Thomas Fire rewrote the coast and the valleys in 2017. The Mountain Fire rewrote the Camarillo hills in 2024. Together they explain the 2025 map.
The record
The Thomas Fire ignited December 4, 2017 and burned into January, crossing into Santa Barbara County and forcing a generation of coastal and valley residents through evacuation. Its worst single night belonged to the City of Ventura's hillside neighborhoods. Agricultural losses exceeded $171 million across citrus, avocado, and berry country. It is the shared anchor for Ventura, Ojai, Santa Paula, and Fillmore, and by extension the Ojai Valley communities.
The Mountain Fire ignited November 6, 2024 near Balcom Canyon Road north of Somis: a brush-clearing fire believed extinguished, rekindled a week later by Santa Ana winds. Within a day roughly 14,000 residents were under evacuation notices, and by containment on November 27 it had destroyed 243 structures and damaged 127 more, with roughly 12,000 acres of avocado, citrus, and berry farmland affected and at least 10 people injured. Its story belongs to Camarillo, and this site keeps it there.
The 2025 remap read both events and more than doubled the county's Very High parcel count versus 2010: roughly 59,000 of 86,000 mapped parcels. That's the map your obligations follow.
Questions
Two, seven years apart. The Thomas Fire (December 2017 to January 2018): 281,893 acres across Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, 1,063 structures destroyed, more than 500 Ventura residences in a single night. And the Mountain Fire (November 2024): 19,904 acres, 243 structures destroyed, at least 83 homes in Camarillo Heights.
Because that's what happened. The Mountain Fire's losses centered on Camarillo; the Thomas Fire hit Ventura, Ojai, Santa Paula, and Fillmore. Borrowing a fire's story for a city it didn't burn would be exactly the kind of interchangeable content this network refuses to publish.
Substantially: roughly 59,000 of the county's 86,000 mapped parcels are now Very High, a 108% increase over 2010. Two major fires in seven years reshaped how the modeling reads this county.
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