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Fires Near San Diego, CA

Live wildfire tracking around San Diego: 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
59 mi
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for San Diego, 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 San Diego, 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 San Diego 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 62 active fires within 300 miles of San Diego, CA, including 14 within 100 miles. None are inside San Diego city limits. The most significant is the Norte fire, 59 miles away at 570 acres, 100% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 2 new fire reports within 30 miles of San Diego, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 4 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 San Diego, CA in the past 12 hours, including 2 helicopters; the closest pass was 14 miles away. Fire traffic includes reconnaissance and repositioning flights as well as water drops.
Air quality measured at the San Diego - Sherman Elementary School monitor is good (AQI 37).
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 4 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 San Diego, CA in the past 12 hours, including 2 helicopters; the closest pass was 14 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: San Diego, CA. Bold outline: San Diego city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

Evacuation feed coverage in California

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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
  • San Diego
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

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625 acres
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772 acres
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8,606 acres

This season vs the last decade

17% of an average year
Burned so far in 2026207 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)1.2K acres

So far in 2026, 207 acres have burned within 25 miles of San Diego, 17% of the 1.2K 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 San Diego, CA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near San Diego

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

  1. Rainbow 6 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR605)

    1 hour ago · November 11, 2026

  2. MTZ/SDU/RAINBOW6 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (CFR605)

    1 hour ago · November 11, 2026

  3. LAC-406124 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (TKR137)

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    8 hours ago · November 10, 2026

Historic fires near San Diego

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Cedar
2003
273,246 acres · 31 mi away · 14 deaths
Witch
2007
197,990 acres · 28 mi away · 2 deaths

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