Southern Marin Fire Protection District, CA

Many Moving Parts

Steps to prepare now

• Sign up for or update your AlertMarin account
• Pack a Go Bag and practice your evacuation plan
• Maintain Defensible Space around your home

• Be alert and aware of early signs of wildfire conditions, like Red Flag Warnings
• Park your car facing out of your driveway / toward your exit
• Check your Go Bags and keep them somewhere accessible

• Flooding, wildfires, and evacuations.
• Shelters, transportation, or supplies. 

April 2025 Update

The Marin County Office of Emergency Management made improvements to the AlertMarin system in March 2025. Log in to your account on the County's portal to update your settings.

By creating an account, you can now:

• Subscribe to Prescribed Burn and Significant Weather Alert notifications
• Add up to five phone numbers and locations (for example: home, work, school, care facility, or another location you or loved ones frequent)
• Choose your language

Creating an account is highly encouraged to benefit from these upgrades. If you do not want to create an account for any reason, you can simply opt-in with a phone number and an address of your choice.

Marin County's Emergency Portal 

Marin's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) has an emergency portal that the public can easily access by visiting emergency.marincounty.gov. On the portal, you can see current incidents, prescribed burns, and evacuations listed at the top of the screen. This portal is your "go to" during an emergency for accurate information.

The Marin Public Information Map is also located on this page. The entire county has been divided into individual evacuation zones. These zones help first responders and emergency service agencies prepare before an emergency strikes and helps streamline the evacuation process.

You're encouraged to familiarize yourself with your zone (example: SOM-E007) and the surrounding areas. OEM will always include identifiable boundaries of an impacted zone when sending an alert.

To view the current status of your location, navigate to the Marin Public Information Map on the Emergency Portal's homepage.

1. At the top right hand side of the map, click on the Evacuation tab
2. Expand the tools by clicking the two chevrons
3. Click on the magnifying glass, enter your address and search

(Click the static image above or go to emergency.marincounty.gov to view the live map.) 

Evacuation Maps*

*Please download evacuation maps using Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge for best results.

SMFD mails educational evacuation brochures to District residents annually. You can also download the Large and Small Scale maps to your phone or computer to familiarize yourself with your surrounding areas. These maps are intended as an educational resource to help you prepare for evacuation. Conditions are fluid and instructions may change during an incident.

In rare cases where evacuation may be delayed or impossible, CRAs provide a last-resort option for residents to shelter temporarily during a wildfire emergency. These designated areas are identified based on defensible space, accessibility, and proximity to at-risk neighborhoods.

Southern Marin Fire has evaluated and identified potential CRAs throughout the district. While not substitutes for evacuation, these locations are maintained and communicated as part of the District’s layered safety strategy, offering one more option when every minute counts.

Large Scale Evacuation Maps

The large-scale maps show a broader view of the jurisdiction.

Smaller Scale Evacuation Maps Per Area

These depict a limited number of neighboring zones and are mailed to residents in each zone annually.