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Fires Near Bakersfield, CA

Live wildfire tracking around Bakersfield: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

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Fires within 100 mi
42 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Moderate

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Live risk assessment for Bakersfield, CA

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • The nearest zone under a Advisory is about 38 miles away in Kern County.
  • The nearest fire is 42 miles away.

Evacuation status

Bakersfield, CA is not inside an active evacuation zone, but 9 zones are active within 50 miles:

  • AdvisoryKRN-722-BKern County38 mi away
  • Evacuation OrderPVL-E042Tulare County47 mi away
  • Evacuation OrderPVL-E044Tulare County47 mi away

Zone status from CAL FIRE / Cal OES, refreshed every 5 minutes; every active zone is also shaded on the map below. Zone codes like KRN-722-B are the official identifiers county emergency managers use in alerts. Counties only publish a zone once they activate it, so your address shows a zone code here the moment one applies to it.

There are currently 95 active fires within 300 miles of Bakersfield, CA, including 4 within 25 miles and 33 within 100 miles. None are inside Bakersfield city limits. The most significant is the Lost fire, 42 miles away at 7,834 acres, 100% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 1 new fire report within 30 miles of Bakersfield, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 6 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. 1 aircraft assigned to fire traffic has flown within 50 miles of Bakersfield, CA in the past 12 hours; the closest pass was 17 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops.
Air quality measured at the Bakersfield - Golden State Highway monitor is moderate (AQI 85).
Early signal: fresh dispatch activity nearby. Dispatch centers logged 1 new fire report within 30 miles in roughly the last 12 hours; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is about 6 miles away. These logs usually appear minutes after the first 911 call, often before a fire is officially listed. Turn on the Dispatch reports layer on the map below and zoom in to see each one.
Firefighting aircraft active nearby. 1 aircraft assigned to fire traffic has flown within 50 miles of Bakersfield, CA in the past 12 hours; the closest pass was 17 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops. Aircraft currently broadcasting appear live on the map below via the Firefighting aircraft layer; tap any icon for its type and track.

House pin: Bakersfield, CA. Bold outline: Bakersfield city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

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Bakersfield is in Kern CountyLive feed

Evacuation orders and warnings issued here appear on FireNearby within minutes and trigger our alerts.

Live evacuation feed coverage
45of 58 counties
Partial coverage

Orders and warnings in the 13 counties without a feed appear on FireNearby only when Cal OES's statewide layer carries them, and not every county posts there. If you live in one, follow that county's official emergency channels.

No live feed13
  • Alpine
  • Amador
  • Colusa
  • El Dorado
  • Glenn
  • Imperial
  • Kings
  • Merced
  • Sacramento
  • San Benito
  • San Francisco
  • San Joaquin
  • Stanislaus
Live feed45
  • Alameda
  • Butte
  • Calaveras
  • Contra Costa
  • Del Norte
  • Fresno
  • Humboldt
  • Inyo
  • Kern
  • Lake
  • Lassen
  • Los Angeles
  • Madera
  • Marin
  • Mariposa
  • Mendocino
  • Modoc
  • Mono
  • Monterey
  • Napa
  • Nevada
  • Orange
  • Placer
  • Plumas
12 official sources, checked every 5 minutes
  • CAL FIRE / Cal OES
  • Orange County Emergency Operations Center
  • Sonoma County Department of Emergency Management
  • City of Santa Rosa Emergency Operations Center
  • Placer County Sheriff's Office
  • Tuolumne County Office of Emergency Services
  • Mariposa County Office of Emergency Services
  • San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services
  • Ventura County Sheriff's Office of Emergency Services
  • Butte County Sheriff's Office
  • Fresno County Sheriff's Office
  • San Luis Obispo County Office of Emergency Services

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
4
0 acres
≤ 50 mi
9
7,835 acres
≤ 100 mi
33
7,981 acres
≤ 200 mi
66
34K acres
≤ 300 mi
95
34K acres

This season vs the last decade

147% of an average year
Burned so far in 202612K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)8.1K acres

So far in 2026, 12K acres have burned within 25 miles of Bakersfield, 147% of the 8.1K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Source: NIFC interagency incident reports, all agencies. Counts fires that started within 25 miles, at their full size.

Active fires near Bakersfield, CA

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Latest updates on fires near Bakersfield

Generated automatically from official feeds the moment they change: size, containment, evacuation zones, aircraft, and incident team updates.

  1. Rainbow 6 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR605)

    1 hour ago · November 11, 2026

  2. MTZ/SDU/RAINBOW6 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR605)

    1 hour ago · November 11, 2026

  3. Mountaineer Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88)

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. LAC-406124 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. LAC-406080 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  6. LAC-405512 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  7. LAC-404865 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  8. LAC-403588 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  9. LAC-403366 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  10. LAC-402436 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

Historic fires near Bakersfield

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Thomas
2017
281,893 acres · 65 mi away · 2 deaths
Zaca Two
2007
240,207 acres · 73 mi away
Sqf Complex
2020
174,178 acres · 68 mi away
Day
2006
162,702 acres · 55 mi away
Station
2009
160,577 acres · 90 mi away
Mcnally
2002
150,696 acres · 49 mi away

Wildfire history near you

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