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Fires Near San Jose, CA

Live wildfire tracking around San Jose: 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
78 mi
Nearest fire
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Weather alerts
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Air quality · Moderate

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Live risk assessment for San Jose, 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 Jose, 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 Santa Clara 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 89 active fires within 300 miles of San Jose, CA, including 7 within 100 miles. None are inside San Jose city limits. The most significant is the Timber fire, 78 miles away at 25,350 acres, 100% contained. In roughly the last 12 hours, dispatch centers logged 5 new fire reports within 30 miles of San Jose, CA; the nearest, a roadside fire report, is 2 miles away. Reports like these usually appear minutes after the first 911 call. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of San Jose, CA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the San Jose - Jackson St. monitor is moderate (AQI 51).
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 2 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 Jose, CA. Bold outline: San Jose city limits. Dashed rings show distance from the city center. Red or amber shaded zones are active evacuation areas.

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San Jose is in Santa Clara CountyLive feed

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Live evacuation feed coverage
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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.

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  • Amador
  • Colusa
  • El Dorado
  • Glenn
  • Imperial
  • Kings
  • Merced
  • Sacramento
  • San Benito
  • San Francisco
  • San Joaquin
  • Stanislaus
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  • 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
  • Santa Clara
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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25K acres
≤ 200 mi
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33K acres
≤ 300 mi
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34K acres

This season vs the last decade

3% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261.5K acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)49K acres

So far in 2026, 1.5K acres have burned within 25 miles of San Jose, 3% of the 49K 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 Jose, CA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near San Jose

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)

    6 hours ago · November 10, 2026

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

    6 hours ago · November 10, 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 Jose

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Scu Lightning Complex
2020
396,624 acres · 19 mi away
Basin Complex
2008
162,818 acres · 79 mi away
Soberanes
2016
132,127 acres · 61 mi away · 1 death
Dolan
2020
124,924 acres · 86 mi away
Central Lnu Complex
2017
110,720 acres · 88 mi away · 24 deaths

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