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Fires Near Redding, CA

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

24
Fires within 100 mi
146 mi
Nearest fire
1
Weather alerts
21
Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for Redding, 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 Redding, 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 CAL FIRE / Cal OES, refreshed every 5 minutes. Live coverage here applies to Shasta 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 74 active fires within 300 miles of Redding, CA, including 8 within 25 miles and 24 within 100 miles. None are inside Redding city limits. The most significant is the W Fork Evans Creek fire, 146 miles away at 283 acres, 75% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 2 new fire reports within 30 miles of Redding, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 2 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. 2 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Redding, CA in the past 12 hours, including 1 helicopter; the closest pass was 36 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops.
The National Weather Service has 1 Wind Advisory in effect covering this location. Air quality measured at the Redding monitor 3 miles away is good (AQI 21).
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 2 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. 2 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Redding, CA in the past 12 hours, including 1 helicopter; the closest pass was 36 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: Redding, CA. Bold outline: Redding city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

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Redding is in Shasta CountyLive feed

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Live evacuation feed coverage
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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.

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  • 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
  • Shasta
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

Fires by distance

City limits
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
8
7 acres
≤ 50 mi
10
8 acres
≤ 100 mi
24
27 acres
≤ 200 mi
58
3,965 acres
≤ 300 mi
74
156K acres
1 active weather alert
Wind Advisoryuntil Nov 12, 12:15 AM

Wind Advisory issued November 10 at 12:03PM PST until November 13 at 7:00PM PST by NWS Sacramento CA

South-Central Shasta County Including Redding Metro; Northern Sacramento Valley in Tehama County; Central Glenn County Including Interstate 5; Eastern Glenn Cou…

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Source: National Weather Service. Alerts open the official NWS record.

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This season vs the last decade

2% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026970 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)45K acres

So far in 2026, 970 acres have burned within 25 miles of Redding, 2% of the 45K 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.

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Latest updates on fires near Redding

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)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  2. Oak Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N604PG, CFR93, CFR210)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  3. Dukelana Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR612)

    9 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  4. Taylor Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N464DF)

    10 hours ago · November 10, 2026
  5. Peavine Fire · Now mapped at 150 acres

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  6. Pines Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR89, CFR88, CFR440)

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  7. Iowa Fire · 3 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR440, CFR89, CFR88)

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  8. Oak Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR93)

    32 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  9. Acorn Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N429DF)

    34 hours ago · November 9, 2026
  10. 0494 Akawa Butte Fire · Zone Lake Billy Chinook 2 Red Purple (Jefferson County) downgraded to Level 1 (Get Ready)

    47 hours ago · November 9, 2026

Historic fires near Redding

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

August Complex
2020
1,032,648 acres · 68 mi away · 1 death
Dixie
2021
963,309 acres · 73 mi away
Park
2024
429,603 acres · 62 mi away
North Complex
2020
318,935 acres · 84 mi away · 16 deaths
Carr
2018
229,651 acres · 13 mi away · 7 deaths
Monument
2021
223,124 acres · 51 mi away

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