About Big Bear Ready

Big Bear Ready puts the information people check before heading up the mountain or out on the lake in one place: roads, weather, power, fire and lake conditions for Big Bear Valley, plus guides to the valley. It is run by the Big Bear Ready team.

Who runs it

Big Bear Ready is an independent, locally run site. It is not a government agency, a news organisation or a public safety service. Businesses can pay for a listing in the directory. Paid listings are labelled, and they are never placed above emergency information.

Where the information comes from

The live readings are read automatically from the agencies that publish them. Each one shows when it was last checked.

• Roads and chain control: Caltrans. Traffic incidents: the California Highway Patrol.
• Weather and storm alerts: the National Weather Service.
• Power outages: Bear Valley Electric Service.
• Lake level, temperature and rules: the Big Bear Municipal Water District. Fish stocking: the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.
• Wildfires: the National Interagency Fire Center’s wildfire data, and Big Bear Fire’s log of 911 calls.
• Incidents and alerts: the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s media summaries and Nixle alerts.
• Air quality: AirNow. Earthquakes: the U.S. Geological Survey.
• Camping, off-roading and snow play: the U.S. Forest Service’s published recreation data for the San Bernardino National Forest.

If this site and an official source disagree, the official source is right.

How pages are written and checked

Guides are written by the team, with AI tools helping on drafting and research. Before a guide goes up, the facts in it are checked against the agency or business pages it relies on. Each guide shows who wrote it and a “Last updated” date: the day its wording last changed.

Incident summaries are taken from what the agencies publish. Exact home addresses and personal details are left out.

Found a mistake? Get in touch

If something here is wrong or out of date, email bigbearreadyhelp@inkboxmail.com with the page and what needs fixing. Corrections are made on the page itself.

This is not an emergency service, and it is not watched around the clock. In an emergency, call 911. The terms of use and the privacy page say more.