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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.

18
Fires within 100 mi
37 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
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Air quality · Good

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Live risk assessment for San Francisco, 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 fire is 37 miles away.

Evacuation status: no active zones

No evacuation orders or warnings are active within 50 miles of San Francisco, CA. Live zone status comes from CAL FIRE / Cal OES, refreshed every 5 minutes. 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 103 active fires within 300 miles of San Francisco, CA, including 2 within 25 miles and 18 within 100 miles. 1 of them is inside San Francisco city limits. The most significant is the Chileno fire, 37 miles away at 341 acres, 95% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 3 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 39).
Early signal: satellite heat detected nearby. Satellites picked up 6 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 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.

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Fires by distance

City limits
1
size unreported
≤ 25 mi
2
0 acres
≤ 50 mi
4
341 acres
≤ 100 mi
18
422 acres
≤ 200 mi
64
81K acres
≤ 300 mi
103
164K acres

This season vs the last decade

233% of an average year
Burned so far in 202663 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)27 acres

So far in 2026, 63 acres have burned within 25 miles of San Francisco, 233% of the 27 acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

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. Dome Fire · Grew 228 acres in 24 hours to 4,361 acres

    15 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  2. Highland Fire · Containment rose to 100%

    15 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  3. Highland Fire · Fire reported 100% contained

    15 hours ago · September 26, 2026

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

    15 hours ago · September 26, 2026

  5. Irish Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR91, CFR658)

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  6. Harvey Fire · Containment rose to 75%

    16 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  7. Goni Fire · Grew 22 acres in about an hour to 25 acres

    18 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  8. Goni Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (N721HT)

    19 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  9. Grade 2 Fire · Containment rose to 80%

    19 hours ago · September 25, 2026

  10. Timber Fire · Evacuation status lifted for zone MRY-F028-B

    19 hours ago · September 25, 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

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