The National Weather Service said the alert will be in effect until Sunday morning in the Santa Clarita Valley and Saturday night in parts of Los Angeles, Ventura, San Bernardino, and Riverside counties.

Temperatures in the area are near 100 degrees and humidity as low as 15 percent. The southern part of California has seen very little rain, drying out vegetation and making it "ripe to burn," the National Weather Service (NWS) for Los Angeles warned.