LIVE FIRE CAMERA NETWORK
California Live Fire Cameras
Watch 1,285 live fire cameras across California — the ALERTCalifornia fire-watch network, free on WorldEye.
Counts come from the live ALERTCalifornia feed — refreshed every 10 minutes.
California watches its fire country with cameras. The ALERTCalifornia network keeps fire-watch cameras on peaks, ridges and towers across the state — many of them pan-tilt-zoom units that dispatchers swing toward a smoke report within minutes — and publishes every camera's latest frame openly. This page gathers the whole California network in one grid: 1,285 cameras, with the largest clusters in Los Angeles, San Diego, Kern, grouped by county with the largest first.
One honest note about what “live” means here: these are live snapshots, not video streams. Each camera's frame is republished about every 15 seconds, and every card below re-requests on that cadence — open a camera and you are watching its ridge in near-real time, one frame at a time. The same cameras appear on the WorldEye globe; this page is the whole network without the trip to the map.
Looking for fires burning right now?
Cameras and fires are different data. The cameras on this page watch California around the clock, fire or no fire — the count above is cameras, not incidents. Active-fire detections come from satellites and live on the Wildfire Tracker, plotted on the globe as they arrive. Use the two together: the tracker shows where heat is, these cameras show what the ridge actually looks like.
And if a fire is near you: never use a camera or a map to decide whether to evacuate. Evacuation orders come from your local fire department, sheriff's office or emergency management agency — get those from official channels first, then come back here for the bigger picture.
Watch California fire cameras live
Every California camera in the live ALERTCalifornia feed. Search by camera name or county, filter by county, and open any camera to watch its frames refresh here — no trip to the map required.
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Top counties for fire cameras
| County | Cameras |
|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 115 |
| San Diego | 73 |
| Kern | 66 |
| San Bernardino | 49 |
| Sonoma | 46 |
| Mendocino | 45 |
| Ventura | 43 |
| San Luis Obispo | 41 |
| Orange | 40 |
| Shasta | 38 |
How to watch California fire cameras
- 1Search or pick a county above — fire country is grouped first, biggest networks at the top.
- 2Read the frame like a lookout: smoke shows as a column or a haze layer on the ridge the camera names.
- 3Open a camera to watch its frames refresh, and compare neighbouring peaks — ALERTCalifornia cameras overlap on purpose, so one fire is often visible from two or three of them.
California fire cameras — FAQ
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