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· 5dMap: Gifford Fire grows 10,000 acres overnight to become California’s biggest wildfire of 2025
Gifford started along Highway 166 east of Santa Maria, adjacent to the footprint of the year’s previous biggest fire: Madre, which last month burned 80,779 acres in the Carrizo Plain area. Evacuation orders for Gifford covered almost 600 square miles, and Highway 166 was closed between Highway 101 and New Cuyama.
· 1dWhere is Gifford Fire burning in Central California? See interactive map
The Gifford Fire has scorched more than 96,000 acres of California’s Central Coast, becoming the state’s largest wildfire of the year so far. The massive wildfire burning in eastern San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties was 15% contained as of Thursday, Aug. 7, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The Gifford Fire is burning through thousands of acres becoming California’s largest blaze of the year and threatening thousands of homes and areas near Los Padres National Forest in the ...
The press release below, in English and Spanish, from Direct Relief details free N95 mask distribution sites as the largest ...
The Gifford Fire was first reported Friday near the Gifford trailhead in Los Padres National Forest, around 15 miles east of ...
California’s largest wildfire of 2025 has exploded in size, prompting urgent evacuations as fire-fueling heat grips the ...
A massive wildfire burning in eastern San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties is now California’s largest wildfire of the ...
Burning over 100,000 acres in Los Padres National Forest, it has triggered evacuations and poses a long-term threat due to ...
The fire is burning with dry and hot conditions, as temperatures climb above 100 degrees in mountainous terrain on the Central Coast.
A massive wildfire continued to burn in Central California, forcing evacuations and threatening hundreds of homes.
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