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Fires Near Riverside, CA

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

103
Fires within 100 mi
9 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Moderate

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Live risk assessment for Riverside, CA

Live

No evacuation order or warning covers this location right now (live zone status is confirmed below), but there is meaningful fire activity nearby. Pack essentials, plan an evacuation route, and check official updates at least hourly.

  • The nearest zone under a Advisory is about 32 miles away in Los Angeles County.
  • An active fire is only 9 miles away and under 50% contained.

Evacuation status

Riverside, CA is not inside an active evacuation zone, but a zone is active within 50 miles:

  • AdvisoryLHH-772-ALos Angeles County32 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 LHH-772-A 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 137 active fires within 300 miles of Riverside, CA, including 13 within 25 miles and 103 within 100 miles. None are inside Riverside city limits. The most significant is the Alper fire, 81 miles away at 105 acres. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 3 new fire reports within 30 miles of Riverside, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 16 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. 6 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Riverside, CA in the past 12 hours, including 1 water-dropping airplane (air tanker or scooper) and 2 helicopters; the closest pass was 13 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops.
Air quality measured at the Riverside - Rubidoux monitor 4 miles away is moderate (AQI 71).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 7 heat detections in the last 24 hours, the closest about 12 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.
Early signal: fresh dispatch activity nearby. Dispatch centers logged 3 new fire reports within 30 miles in roughly the last 12 hours; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is about 16 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. 6 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Riverside, CA in the past 12 hours, including 1 water-dropping airplane (air tanker or scooper) and 2 helicopters; the closest pass was 13 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: Riverside, CA. Bold outline: Riverside 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
13
30 acres
≤ 50 mi
51
136 acres
≤ 100 mi
103
245 acres
≤ 200 mi
119
247 acres
≤ 300 mi
137
126K acres

This season vs the last decade

44% of an average year
Burned so far in 202611K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)25K acres

So far in 2026, 11K acres have burned within 25 miles of Riverside, 44% of the 25K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Riverside, CA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Riverside

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. Patton Ln Tem Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR72, CFR652, T73)

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

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

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  4. Sandia Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  5. Dorado Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Alamo Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (LAC20, LAC18)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. LAC-345537 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (LAC20)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Lopez 2 Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (LAC18, LAC20)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Victor Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (LAC20)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Juniper Fire · 6 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N292NA, CUL561, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Historic fires near Riverside

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Cedar
2003
273,246 acres · 77 mi away · 14 deaths
Witch
2007
197,990 acres · 58 mi away · 2 deaths
Day
2006
162,702 acres · 92 mi away
Station
2009
160,577 acres · 50 mi away
Bobcat
2020
115,997 acres · 38 mi away
Simi Incident
2003
108,204 acres · 78 mi away

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