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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.

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

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Live risk assessment for Riverside, 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 uncontained fire is 24 miles away. Wind-driven fires can cover that distance in a day.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation order or warning covers Riverside, 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 Riverside 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 66 active fires within 300 miles of Riverside, CA, including 6 within 25 miles and 48 within 100 miles. None are inside Riverside city limits. The most significant is the Norte fire, 35 miles away at 570 acres, 100% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 5 new fire reports within 30 miles of Riverside, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 11 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. 4 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Riverside, CA in the past 12 hours, including 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 good (AQI 41).
Early signal: fresh dispatch activity nearby. Dispatch centers logged 5 new fire reports within 30 miles in roughly the last 12 hours; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is about 11 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. 4 aircraft assigned to fire traffic have flown within 50 miles of Riverside, CA in the past 12 hours, including 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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Riverside is in Riverside CountyLive feed

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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
  • Riverside
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
0
no fires
≤ 25 mi
6
55 acres
≤ 50 mi
23
625 acres
≤ 100 mi
48
772 acres
≤ 200 mi
62
8,606 acres
≤ 300 mi
66
34K acres

This season vs the last decade

45% 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, 45% of the 25K 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 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. LAC-406124 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  8. LAC-401094 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  9. LAC-406357 Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N716HT, TKR137)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

  10. LAC-406357 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (SCPR260)

    9 hours ago · November 10, 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

Wildfire history near you

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