The Angeles National Forest kind of fills the northern half of Los Angeles County. Santa Monica is on the western edge of the central part of the County (not near the fire) and the City of Los Angeles is kind of in the west/center of the County. Anaheim is south of Los Angeles County in Orange County, and Santa Barbara is northwest of Los Angeles in Santa Barbara County. The fire is in the Angeles National Forest area and borders on the cities that span east and west just north of the City of Los Angeles i.e, Pasadena (fire just north of the Rose Bowl and JPL in Pasadena and Mt. Wilson), Altadena, Glendale, LaCanada/Flintridge, La Crescenta, Sunland, Tujunga. These cities run in an east/west line across the upper middle portion of the County. North of that is the Angeles National Forest which goes all the way north to the Antelope Valley Lancaster/Palmdale (near Edwards Air Force base where the Space Shuttle sometiimes lands). The Angeles National Forest is where the fire is, but it borders on all of the surrounding communities. Hope that helps.