Protect Your Simi Valley Home From Mountain Corridor Wildfire
Simi Valley sits in a wind corridor between the Santa Susana Mountains and Simi Hills, where fires like the 2019 Easy Fire threaten homes across the wildland-urban interface. Document your risk and hardening now.
Simi Valley is a city of nearly 127,000 residents occupying a broad valley in southeastern Ventura County, hemmed in by the Santa Susana Mountains to the north, the Simi Hills to the south, and the Santa Susana Pass to the east. This bowl-shaped geography creates a distinctive wind corridor that funnels Santa Ana winds through the valley at dangerous speeds — the same winds that drive the region's most destructive wildfires.
The October 2019 Easy Fire demonstrated this vulnerability when it ignited near the 118 Freeway and quickly spread across 1,860 acres, threatening neighborhoods in the eastern portion of the valley near Easy Street and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Driven by powerful Santa Ana gusts, the fire forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and came within yards of homes before firefighters contained it. Two structures were destroyed, but the event could have been far worse — the Woolsey Fire had burned 96,949 acres just one year earlier along the same mountain corridor.