Protect Your Thousand Oaks Home From Woolsey-Scale Wildfire
The 2018 Woolsey Fire destroyed over 1,600 structures across the Santa Monica Mountains and Conejo Valley. Thousand Oaks homeowners at the wildland interface need verified risk documentation now.
Thousand Oaks is the largest city in Ventura County, home to nearly 127,000 residents across a sprawling landscape of oak-studded valleys, ridgelines, and canyon corridors in the Conejo Valley. The city is bordered on the south by the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and interwoven with thousands of acres of protected open space — a quality of life asset that doubles as a wildfire liability.
The November 2018 Woolsey Fire made that tradeoff catastrophic. Igniting near the Santa Susana Field Laboratory, the fire raced south through the Santa Monica Mountains on ferocious Santa Ana winds, burning 96,949 acres from Simi Valley to the Pacific Ocean. In Thousand Oaks, the fire swept through neighborhoods bordering open space in the Lynn Ranch, Sunset Hills, and Newbury Park areas, destroying homes and forcing tens of thousands to evacuate. Across its footprint, the Woolsey Fire destroyed 1,643 structures and killed three people — making it one of the most destructive wildfires in California history.