Marin County Coast Conditions

Reading the sources…

Everything that decides a day in Marin County, read for Point Reyes Station, with nearby bars, highways, water and fire districts included where they affect the day, even when they sit outside the county.

TodayWeather, the highway, the air and fire danger

Weather

Highways

On the WaterTides, the bars, the marine forecast and shellfish

Tides

Bar conditions

SafetyBeach advisories, earthquakes and tsunami

MoreAlerts, scanner feeds, and what this is

Scanner feeds

Public-safety radio from these two counties that somebody is streaming online, with what each feed carries.

Every one of these is a whole county, and none of them is a coast town on its own. Nothing streamed that we can find is dispatch for Bodega Bay, Jenner, Point Reyes Station, Bolinas or Stinson Beach by itself — the coast shares the county's channels, and on a busy inland day that is what you will hear. Start with the county dispatch feed and read the rest as fire. What each feed carries is its own listing on Broadcastify, not something this page has checked against the radio.

Run by volunteers, not by any agency. They play an ad first, run a minute or so behind the radio, and can go quiet without notice; Broadcastify’s page for each one shows whether it is on. Not a way to get help: call 911.

Sonoma County

Fire, EMS and Sheriff dispatch Listed as “Sonoma County Fire-EMS and Sheriff Dispatch”, and the busiest feed in the county. Its owner names REDCOM fire and medical dispatch, the fire tactical channels for Santa Rosa north to Healdsburg, CAL FIRE LNU West dispatch, and the Sheriff’s primary dispatch — which the listing warns “may be locked out during working fire incidents”, so the thing you most want to hear is the thing most likely to go quiet.
Sonoma fire, north county Listed as “Sonoma Fire North”, CAL FIRE LNU-West and REDCOM, fed by Watch Duty. Not a scanner in the usual sense: its owner says it is stereo and every frequency runs at once “so that no audio is missed”, which is useful while something is burning and noise otherwise. This is the half of the county the Sea Ranch, Fort Ross and Jenner coast sits in.
Sonoma fire, south county Listed as “Sonoma Fire South”, the same arrangement as the north feed and from the same owner: CAL FIRE LNU-West and REDCOM, all at once, in stereo. The half that takes in Bodega Bay, Bodega and Valley Ford.
CAL FIRE air tactics Listed as “Cal Fire Air”, the air tactics channels, broadcast simultaneously. Aircraft working a fire, not dispatch — there is nothing on it most days.

Marin County

Every fire agency in the county Listed as “Marin County - All County Fire Agencies”, and the one to open first on this side. Countywide dispatch and the tactical channels off the Marin Emergency Radio Authority’s system, split by its owner into north Marin around Novato, central Marin around San Rafael and Ross Valley, and southern and south-west Marin around Mill Valley and Sausalito. The west coast towns are dispatched on the same system.
Law enforcement Listed as “Marin County Law Enforcement”: all law enforcement dispatch channels on the same Marin Emergency Radio Authority P25 system. The Sheriff answers for the coast towns, none of which has a police department of its own.
CAL FIRE dispatch, Marin and three counties inland Listed as “Dispatch LNU, MRN, Napa, Lake” and fed by Watch Duty. Marin’s CAL FIRE dispatch is on the right channel — alongside Colusa, Lake and Napa county dispatch, with the LNU east and west dispatch channels on the left. Four counties at once, so most of what you hear on it is a long way from here.

Every link opened and checked September 22, 2026. Feeds on Broadcastify for Sonoma and Marin.