The Freeway Complex Fire was a 2008 wildfire in the Santa Ana Canyon area of Orange County, California.
These two separate fires merged a day later and ultimately destroyed 314 residences in Anaheim Hills and Yorba Linda.
[3] The fire spread west and north into the hillsides of Yorba Linda and south into Anaheim Hills, where multiple businesses and residences were destroyed.
[8] The preliminary cause of the Freeway Fire was thought to be the result of a vehicle exhaust system igniting roadside vegetation.
The fire was determined to have been caused by inadequate maintenance of power lines supplying electricity to equipment in the Brea-Olinda Oil Field.