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Fires Near San Francisco, CA

Live wildfire tracking around San Francisco: 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
114 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for San Francisco, 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.
There are currently 69 active fires within 300 miles of San Francisco, CA, including 1 within 25 miles and 2 within 100 miles. 1 of them is inside San Francisco city limits. The most significant is the Timber fire, 114 miles away at 25,350 acres, 100% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 8 new fire reports within 30 miles of San Francisco, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 7 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of San Francisco, CA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the San Francisco monitor is good (AQI 18).
Early signal: fresh dispatch activity nearby. Dispatch centers logged 8 new fire reports within 30 miles in roughly the last 12 hours; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is about 7 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.

House pin: San Francisco, CA. Bold outline: San Francisco city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

No evacuation feed for this area

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Fires by distance

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size unreported
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25K acres
≤ 300 mi
69
33K acres

This season vs the last decade

258% of an average year
Burned so far in 202670 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)27 acres

So far in 2026, 70 acres have burned within 25 miles of San Francisco, 258% of the 27 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 Francisco, CA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near San Francisco

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)

    5 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    5 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

    30 hours ago · November 9, 2026

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

    30 hours ago · November 9, 2026

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

    30 hours ago · November 9, 2026

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

    31 hours ago · November 9, 2026

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

    33 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 San Francisco

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Scu Lightning Complex
2020
396,624 acres · 52 mi away
Lnu Lightning Complex
2020
363,220 acres · 65 mi away · 5 deaths
Soberanes
2016
132,127 acres · 95 mi away · 1 death
Central Lnu Complex
2017
110,720 acres · 48 mi away · 24 deaths

Wildfire history near you

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