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Fires Near Paradise, CA

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

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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Paradise, CA

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No significant wildfire threat near this location right now.

  • No active fires within 50 miles, no fire weather alerts, and clean air right now.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Paradise, CA in the official live feed, and none of the feeds we monitor show an active zone within 50 miles. Live zone status comes from Butte County Sheriff's Office, refreshed every 5 minutes. Live coverage here applies to Butte County; neighboring counties post notices through their own official channels. 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 71 active fires within 300 miles of Paradise, CA, including 2 within 25 miles and 40 within 100 miles. None are inside Paradise city limits. The most significant is the W Fork Evans Creek fire, 212 miles away at 283 acres, 75% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 2 new fire reports within 30 miles of Paradise, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 6 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. 7 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Paradise, CA in the past 12 hours, including 2 helicopters; the closest pass was 4 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops.
Air quality measured at the Paradise - Clark Road monitor is good (AQI 31).
Early signal: fresh dispatch activity nearby. Dispatch centers logged 2 new fire reports 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. 7 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Paradise, CA in the past 12 hours, including 2 helicopters; the closest pass was 4 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: Paradise, CA. Bold outline: Paradise city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

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  • San Bernardino County Office of Emergency Services
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Fires by distance

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176K acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026159 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)158K acres

So far in 2026, 159 acres have burned within 25 miles of Paradise, <1% of the 158K 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 Paradise, CA

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Latest updates on fires near Paradise

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

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

    4 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  2. Oak Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N604PG, CFR93, CFR210)

    4 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  3. Dukelana Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR612)

    7 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  4. Taylor Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N464DF)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  5. Peavine Fire · Now mapped at 150 acres

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  6. Pines Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88, CFR440)

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  7. Iowa Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR440, CFR89, CFR88)

    29 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  8. Oak Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR93)

    30 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  9. Acorn Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N429DF)

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026

  10. Pines Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88)

    2 days ago · November 9, 2026

Historic fires near Paradise

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

August Complex
2020
1,032,648 acres · 64 mi away · 1 death
Dixie
2021
963,309 acres · 15 mi away
Mendocino Complex
2018
459,123 acres · 87 mi away · 1 death
Park
2024
429,603 acres · 11 mi away
North Complex
2020
318,935 acres · 43 mi away · 16 deaths
Rush
2012
315,577 acres · 98 mi away

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