Point Arena Coast Conditions

Reading the sources…

Point Arena, Mendocino County, California. Its own tide, water, and roads come first, and every reading is dated and linked back to whoever published it.

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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 this county that somebody is streaming online, with what each feed carries.

One feed carries the whole county, and nothing here is one town. The county-wide sheriff, fire and EMS feed is the one to open first; the other three are fire, and two of those were offline when they were read. Nothing streamed that we can find is dispatch for Fort Bragg, Point Arena, Gualala or any of the coast towns on their own. 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.

Mendocino County

Sheriff, fire, EMS, Cal Fire and CHP Listed as “Mendocino County Sheriff, Fire, EMS, Cal Fire and CHP”, and the busiest feed in the county by a long way. A stereo feed: its owner puts the sheriff, Ukiah police and CHP on the right channel and fire and EMS on the left.
Cal Fire, and the Willits-area fire departments Listed as “Cal Fire, Sherwood, Brooktrails and Little Lake Fire / EMS”. Its owner puts Mendocino County Cal Fire’s red, blue and command channels on the left and the Brooktrails and Little Lake departments on the right — inland, around Willits, not the coast.
Cal Fire Mendocino Unit, fire and air Listed as covering the fire and air frequencies for Mendocino County and the Mendocino Unit, fed by Watch Duty. Not streaming when this page was checked, September 21, 2026. Not a scanner in the usual sense: it is every fire-air frequency at once, useful while something is burning and noise otherwise.
Mendocino National Forest, west side, fire air Listed as the fire air frequencies for the west side of the Mendocino National Forest, fed by Watch Duty. Not streaming when this page was checked, September 21, 2026. The forest is inland, east of US 101; this is the nearest thing to a feed for the country the smoke comes from.

Every link opened and checked September 21, 2026. Feeds on Broadcastify.