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Live desk — Monday, October 12, 2026

Walnut Creek Now

One screen for what's happening in Walnut Creek right now — air, weather, traffic, transit, and the day's civic pulse, drawn straight from public data.

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Conditions & transit

Walnut Creek, CA · 37.910 N, −122.065 W · moderate air
Air quality
63US AQI
PM2.5 6.6 µg/m³ · fine-particle smoke is the number that matters here
Moderate
Right now
69°F
Clear · feels like 62° · wind 11 mph
Clear
Today's range
72° / 50°
High / low · rain chance 0%
Heat — hot afternoon
I-680 at Ygnacio
Flowing
Near free-flow through the interchange ○ sample
Typical
BART · Walnut Creek Stn
On time
Next: Antioch 10:41 · SFO 10:53 · Dublin 11:04 ○ sample
Yellow / Blue
Fire weather
Hot & dry
Hot, dry, breezy evening; humidity dips under 30% at peak heat ○ sample
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The civic pulse

69
Calls for service, Mon 10/12
▼ 8% vs 75.1 avg
9
Notable incidents, 10/12
▼ 2.3 vs 14-day avg
1,052
Calls for service, last 14 days
75.7 / day
135
Calls on N Main St, 14 days
busiest street in town

Calls-for-service by hour, last 14 days. Two peaks: the 8–9 a.m. commute and a broad 2–5 p.m. crest; quietest hour is 3 a.m. (10 calls in 14 days).

Where the calls happened — by police zone, last 14 days. Downtown lives in Zones 1 and 2, the two busiest.

Notable yesterday — 10/12

01:00Trespass1100 Blk Locust St
02:34ThreatsCivic Dr / Ygnacio Valley Rd
07:13Vandalism1900 Blk Barkley Av
09:35Sudden Death1200 Blk Rossmoor Pk
10:22Missing Person2800 Blk Tice Creek Dr
15:12Hit And Run1500 Blk Sunnyvale Av

Block-level, from the WCPD public daily log. The department publishes call type and block, not the outcome — we report the log as filed.

Around town

Sun
Downtown Walnut Creek Farmers' Market
Locust St between Cole & Lacassie · 9 a.m.–1 p.m.
Ongoing
Lesher Center for the Arts — fall season
1601 Civic Dr ○ feed to connect
Live
City events & festivals calendar
Wired to the city calendar + Eventbrite ○ feed to connect