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Fires Near Chico, CA

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

39
Fires within 100 mi
45 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
26
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Chico, CA

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Fire activity exists in the wider area but poses no immediate threat to this location. Check back daily while fires remain active.

  • The nearest fire is 45 miles away.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation orders or warnings are active within 50 miles of Chico, CA. Live zone status comes from CAL FIRE / Cal OES, refreshed every 5 minutes. Counties assign a zone code to an address only when they activate a zone, so a quiet area has no code to show; if one is ever issued for this location, it appears here immediately.

There are currently 118 active fires within 300 miles of Chico, CA, including 3 within 25 miles and 39 within 100 miles. None are inside Chico city limits. The most significant is the Lucas fire, 71 miles away at 4,128 acres, 100% contained. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Chico, CA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Chico - East monitor 2 miles away is good (AQI 26).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 22 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 19 miles away, that do not match any officially reported fire. Detections like this are often the first public sign of a new ignition, though they can also be industrial heat or agricultural burning. Turn on the Satellite heat layer on the map below and check back over the next few hours.

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

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Fires by distance

City limits
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no fires
≤ 25 mi
3
1 acres
≤ 50 mi
9
185 acres
≤ 100 mi
39
6,155 acres
≤ 200 mi
86
129K acres
≤ 300 mi
118
480K acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026106 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)60K acres

So far in 2026, 106 acres have burned within 25 miles of Chico, <1% of the 60K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Chico, CA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Chico

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

  1. Dome Fire · Grew 228 acres in 24 hours to 4,361 acres

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Highland Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Highland Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  4. Timber Fire · Mapped size revised down to 25,341 acres (from 25,513)

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  5. Irish Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR91, CFR658)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Harvey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Goni Fire · Grew 22 acres in about an hour to 25 acres

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Goni Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N721HT)

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Grade 2 Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Timber Fire · Evacuation status lifted for zone MRY-F028-B

    15 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Historic fires near Chico

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

August Complex
2020
1,032,648 acres · 52 mi away · 1 death
Dixie
2021
963,309 acres · 26 mi away
Mendocino Complex
2018
459,123 acres · 76 mi away · 1 death
Park
2024
429,603 acres · 6 mi away
Lnu Lightning Complex
2020
363,220 acres · 100 mi away · 5 deaths
North Complex
2020
318,935 acres · 54 mi away · 16 deaths

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