Naval command · United States

Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility San Diego

Recorded as: FACSFAC SAN DIEGO

The U.S. Navy facility that schedules and controls the Navy's offshore operating areas off Southern California.

Naval commands announce the areas and times of exercises, firings and other operations that other ships should avoid. The same areas are often used again and again, so the archive shows how regularly a range is active.

What the archive holds

430 messages in this archive record FACSFAC SAN DIEGO as their authority, issued from 1999-06-18 to 2024-04-26. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Exercises accounts for 368 of 430 recorded messages (86%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA XII.

Located messages lie in 1 sea area, most often North Pacific Ocean.

The largest yearly count is 2018, with 54 messages. Collection is incomplete between 2024-05 and 2026-08-17, so those years are not comparable.

Across all years its messages are issued most often in January and least often in October.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA XII (430).

Messages by year of issue

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA XII 430

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA XII 287/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-04-26
    Hazardous operations 10800Z may to 010800Z jun in area bound by 32-55.00N 118-25.00W, 32-55.00N 118-15.00W,…
  2. NAVAREA XII 286/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-04-26
    Hazardous operations 010800Z may to 010800Z jun in area bound by 32-52.70N 119-11.97W, 33-08.07N 118-52.08W,…
  3. NAVAREA XII 285/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-04-26
    Hazardous operations 010800Z may to 010800Z jun in area bound by 32-33.00N 118-25.00W, 32-35.00N 118-16.00W,…
  4. NAVAREA XII 227/24 · Missiles · North Pacific Ocean2024-04-05
    Missile operations 091300Z to 100001Z and 101300Z to 110001Z apr in area bound by 33-01.97N 118-37.98W,…
  5. NAVAREA XII 197/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-03-26
    Hazardous operations 010800Z apr to 010800Z may in area bound by 32-55.00N 118-25.00W, 32-55.00N 118-15.00W,…
  6. NAVAREA XII 196/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-03-26
    Hazardous operations 010800Z apr to 010800Z may in area bound by 32-33.00N 118-25.00W, 32-35.00N 118-16.00W,…
  7. NAVAREA XII 195/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-03-26
    Hazardous operations 010800Z apr to 010800Z may in area bound by 32-52.70N 119-11.97W, 33-08.07N 118-52.08W,…
  8. NAVAREA XII 107/24 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean2024-02-25
    Hazardous operations 010800Z mar to 010800Z apr in area bound by 32-52.70N 119-11.97W, 33-08.07N 118-52.08W,…

Earliest in the archive

  1. NAVAREA XII 203/99 · Exercises · North Pacific Ocean1999-06-18
    Hazardous operations 221700Z to 222000Z, and 1600Z to 1800Z daily 23 and 24 jun in area bound by 32-59.8N…

Other naval commands in NAVAREA XII

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.