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Map: Gifford Fire grows 10,000 acres overnight to become California’s biggest wildfire of 2025
Gifford started along Highway 166 east of Santa Maria, adjacent to the footprint of the year’s previous biggest fire: Madre, which last month burned 80,779 acres in the Carrizo Plain area. Evacuation orders for Gifford covered almost 600 square miles, and Highway 166 was closed between Highway 101 and New Cuyama.
Where is Gifford Fire burning in Central California? See interactive map
The Gifford Fire has scorched more than 96,000 acres of California’s Central Coast, becoming the state’s largest wildfire of the year so far. The massive wildfire burning in eastern San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties was 15% contained as of Thursday, Aug. 7, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
The press release below, in English and Spanish, from Direct Relief details free N95 mask distribution sites as the largest ...
A massive wildfire burning in eastern San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties is now California’s largest wildfire of the ...
As of Friday, the Gifford Fire has burned a destructive path through San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties for just ...
The Gifford Fire scorched more than 113 square miles of coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with 3% ...
The Gifford Fire was first reported Friday near the Gifford trailhead in Los Padres National Forest, around 15 miles east of ...
As of Tuesday, Aug. 5, the Gifford Fire had scorched more than 82,000 acres, triggering evacuations and closing a key stretch ...
A massive wildfire continued to burn in Central California, forcing evacuations and threatening hundreds of homes.
A fierce forest fire was raging in the US state of California on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.
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