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The Compton Creek Mosquito Abatement District is an independent special district committed to protecting the public’s health, safety and welfare from mos

The Compton Creek Mosquito Abatement District is an independent special district committed to protecting the public’s health, safety and welfare from mosquito-borne diseases. In fact, we have been performing this service, protecting public health, since 1927, when the residents of the City of Compton, realizing that mosquitoes were having an adverse effect on the lives, elected to form the District and alleviate the problems with mosquitoes. Now covering 12.5 square miles and protecting close to 100,000 citizens, the District is funded through tax dollars and provides free services for mosquitoes and all of the other related items involved in mosquito control.

10/25/2026

West Nile virus is still being reported in LA County. As of October 22, LA County Public Health counts 279 infections this season. Long Beach and Pasadena report their own numbers, so they aren’t in that total.

Mosquitoes are still active, and this week’s rain left water behind. Our crews are still in the field. You can help at home:

Tip and toss standing water once a week
Use EPA-registered insect repellent outdoors, especially at dusk and dawn
Keep window and door screens in good repair

See a dead bird? Report it: 877-968-2473 comptoncreekmad.org

10/22/2026

If there is one routine that explains why we keep talking about
protection that travels, it is the after-school hour.

Think about how it actually goes. Practice or a game runs later than
planned. The field is often not in the city you live in. It gets dark while you are waiting. And then everybody stands around in the parking lot for another twenty minutes, because that is what always happens.

That is dusk, away from home, for an hour or more, several times a
week. The mosquito that spreads West Nile virus in our area feeds
from dusk through dawn, so those are the hours that matter most,
and almost none of it is happening at your house.

Nobody is suggesting you skip practice. The fix is smaller than that:

Put one bottle of repellent in the bag that already goes to practice,
and leave it there.

Apply before you get out of the car rather than after the bites start.
Long sleeves are easy in October and they help.
Follow the label directions, especially for younger children. Oil of
lemon eucalyptus is the plant-derived option, though not for children under three.

One bottle that lives in the bag means you stop having to remember.

10/20/2026

The easiest week to fix a drainage problem is a dry one.

Some context on why now. Forecasters have El Niño strengthening through the fall and winter, and El Niño conditions are generally associated with wetter than normal winters in Southern California. That is a shift in the odds rather than a forecast of any particular storm, and El Niño winters here have varied a great deal.

What is not uncertain is that fixing drainage is much easier in a dry
October than a wet January. Right now the gutters are empty, the
ground is firm, and you can actually see where water would collect.

Four jobs, in order of impact:

Clear gutters and downspouts. Spring and summer debris is almost
certainly still up there, and a blocked gutter holds water along its
entire length once the rain starts.

Pull tarps, grill covers and furniture covers tight, or re-pitch them, so they shed water instead of collecting it. A sagging cover is one of the most reliable sources we find and it is a five-minute fix.
Run a hose for a minute and watch where the water goes. Wherever it sits in October is where it will sit in December. Fill it, grade it, or at least know about it.
Walk the side yard. That is where the bucket, the bin, the spare tire
and the forgotten planter end up.

You do not have to do all four. Pick one this week.

If you find something you cannot solve, that is what the District is for.
comptoncreekmad.org or (310) 933-5321)

10/19/2026

Clocks go back on Sunday, November 1. It is worth a minute of thought before it happens.

The mosquito that spreads West Nile virus in our area feeds from dusk through dawn. Dusk is a light condition rather than a time, so it does not shift when the clock does.

What shifts is your day. When the hour comes off, sunset lands about an hour earlier on the clock. Activity that used to happen comfortably in daylight starts happening at dusk instead:

The drive or walk home from work. The walk from the bus stop. The last part of after-school practice. Walking the dog before dinner. Standing outside talking after somebody gets home.

None of that is new risk. It is the same hours of mosquito activity landing on a different part of your routine, which is exactly why people get caught out by it. The evening feels earlier and cooler, so it does not feel like mosquito time.

The adjustment is small. Keep repellent where you leave from, and expect the first couple of weeks of November to need it at an hour that feels too early.

More on the timing in this week's blog post.

10/17/2026

Three things, every week, and no we are not going to stop saying it.

The saucer under the potted plant. The low spot in the tarp. The bucket behind the garage.

That is most of it. The list is short and it does not change, and the reason it works is the interval rather than the effort. In warm weather a mosquito can develop from egg to adult in roughly five to seven days. Water that sits gets there.

Two things worth being precise about:

Tip water out when you see it rather than deciding it will probably dry. Whether it dries in time depends on shade, temperature and how deep it is, and none of that is worth guessing at. A thorough clean-up once a season does nothing for you in the weeks after it. Ten minutes on a schedule beats an hour once.

Pick your day and keep it. Trash day is a good one because you are already outside and already looking at the side yard.

If you keep finding water somewhere you cannot fix, call us. (310) 933-5321

10/15/2026

Here is a part of the work most residents never see.

Traps are one part of how the District monitors mosquito activity. They are placed across the district on a regular schedule, they are small, and most people walk past them without noticing.

The routine, in plain terms:

Traps are set and collected on a regular schedule.
The mosquitoes collected are identified by species, because species determines which diseases matter.
Samples are tested for virus.
Results tell the District where activity is increasing and where treatment should be concentrated.

Traps and resident reports are two sources for the same picture. A trap network tells us about the places where traps are. A resident, or a reported dead bird, tells us about the rest.

comptoncreekmad.org or (310) 933-5321

10/14/2026

This one is worth understanding, because it changes how you read every West Nile headline you will see this fall.

When a health agency reports new cases, those are newly reported cases. They are not infections that happened during the reporting week, and the difference is not small.

The sequence runs roughly like this. Someone is bitten. If symptoms appear at all, and in most infections they do not, there is a delay of several days. Then there is a delay before a doctor visit.

Then a delay for testing. Then confirmation, then reporting. Each step adds time.

What that means in practice:

A count published today describes something that already happened.
A flat week does not mean transmission stopped. It may mean fewer results have come back.
A jump in a single week usually means a batch of results cleared, not a sudden outbreak.

None of that makes the data less useful. It is the best picture available and it is why surveillance exists. But it does mean the honest way to use it is as direction rather than as a live score.

The practical version: do not wait for a number to rise before you start checking the yard and using repellent. By the time the number moves, the conditions behind it are weeks old.

More on how detection actually works in this week's blog post.

10/13/2026

A dead crow is data, and this one is worth explaining.

On August 25 a crow found on the 2000 block of South Central
Avenue in Compton tested positive for West Nile virus. It was the first positive bird confirmed in the city this year.

Why a bird matters more than it sounds like it should:

West Nile virus circulates between mosquitoes and birds. Birds are
affected before people are, which makes a positive bird one of the
earliest available signals that infected mosquitoes are active locally,
in a named place rather than across a whole county.

A confirmed detection is what turns a general concern into a located one. It is the difference between knowing West Nile is somewhere in Los Angeles County and knowing it was active on a particular street in August.

And this particular signal did not exist without a resident. Somebody had to notice the bird and make the call. Dead bird reports sit alongside mosquito trapping and testing as one of the sources that build the local picture, and they are the one that depends on the public.

How to report:
Call 1-877-WNV-BIRD (877-968-2473) or report online at
westnile.ca.gov
Do not handle the bird. Note the location and report it.
Crows, ravens, jays, sparrows and finches are the most useful
reports.

For mosquito problems at your own property, that is us: (310)
933-5321

10/10/2026

October is the first month all year that the evenings are genuinely comfortable, which is why everybody opens the windows. It is also the reason to spend ten seconds on your screens.

The mosquito that spreads West Nile virus in our area feeds from dusk through dawn. That overlaps almost exactly with the hours the house is open.

What to check tonight:
👉 Do the window screens sit flush in the frame, or is there a gap along one edge?
👉 Any small tears, especially at the corners where they start?
👉 Does the screen door latch closed, or does it just rest against the jamb?
👉 Is there a gap under the screen door big enough to see daylight through?

Screens are the only piece of mosquito protection you install once and then stop thinking about. That is exactly why they are worth a look. A torn corner has usually been torn for a while.

Repairs are cheap and most hardware stores sell patch kits. If mosquitoes are getting inside despite good screens, call us. (310) 933-5321

10/08/2026

If you have looked everywhere and cannot find where they are coming from, that is exactly when to call.

If mosquitoes are a problem where you live, a District technician will inspect the property at no cost to you. It is already covered for residents inside the district.

Examples of what an inspection turns up:
👉 A catch basin that is cracked or blocked and holding water below the grate.
👉 A French drain or subsurface drain doing the same thing out of sight.
👉 A pool or water feature on a nearby property that nobody is maintaining.
👉 A tarp, cover or piece of sheeting with a low spot in it.
👉 A planter saucer tucked under a shrub where you would not look.

Often it is not the thing the resident expected, and sometimes not even on their own property. That is the part that is hard to solve alone. Request service at comptoncreekmad.org or call (310) 933-5321.

Address

1224 S. Santa Fe Avenue
Compton, CA
90221

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 4pm
Tuesday	9am - 4pm
Wednesday	9am - 4pm
Thursday	9am - 4pm
Friday	9am - 4pm

Telephone

+13109335321

Website

http://www.comptoncreekmad.org/

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