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Fires Near Santa Barbara, CA

Live wildfire tracking around Santa Barbara: every active fire within 300 miles with distance, size, containment, wind, smoke, and air quality, from official US sources.

59
Fires within 100 mi
82 mi
Nearest fire
0
Weather alerts
14
Air quality · Good

All clear

Live risk assessment for Santa Barbara, 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 orders or warnings are active within 50 miles of Santa Barbara, 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 148 active fires within 300 miles of Santa Barbara, CA, including 59 within 100 miles. None are inside Santa Barbara city limits. The most significant is the Grade fire, 82 miles away at 33 acres. No firefighting aircraft have been active within 50 miles of Santa Barbara, CA in the past 12 hours.
Air quality measured at the Paradise Road monitor 10 miles away is good (AQI 14).

House pin: Santa Barbara, CA. Bold outline: Santa Barbara 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
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no fires
≤ 50 mi
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≤ 100 mi
59
36 acres
≤ 200 mi
117
56K acres
≤ 300 mi
148
112K acres

This season vs the last decade

<1% of an average year
Burned so far in 20261 acres
10-year average (2016–2025, full year)6.2K acres

So far in 2026, 1 acre has burned within 25 miles of Santa Barbara, <1% of the 6.2K acres burned in an average full year from 2016 to 2025.

Active fires near Santa Barbara, CA

Every active fire within 300 miles, closest first.

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Latest updates on fires near Santa Barbara

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

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026
  2. Patton Ln Tem Fire · 4 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR72, CFR652, T73)

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026
  3. Timber Fire · Mapped size revised down to 25,341 acres (from 25,513)

    11 hours ago · September 26, 2026
  4. Sandia Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026
  5. Dorado Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (CFR652, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026
  6. Alamo Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (LAC20, LAC18)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026
  7. LAC-345537 Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (LAC20)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026
  8. Lopez 2 Fire · 2 firefighting aircraft working this fire (LAC18, LAC20)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026
  9. Victor Fire · Firefighting aircraft on scene (LAC20)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026
  10. Juniper Fire · 6 firefighting aircraft working this fire (N292NA, CUL561, T73)

    12 hours ago · September 25, 2026

Historic fires near Santa Barbara

The largest wildfires on record within 100 miles.

Thomas
2017
281,893 acres · 34 mi away · 2 deaths
Zaca Two
2007
240,207 acres · 33 mi away
Day
2006
162,702 acres · 53 mi away
Station
2009
160,577 acres · 87 mi away
Gifford
2025
131,612 acres · 51 mi away
Simi Incident
2003
108,204 acres · 59 mi away

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