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California’s Largest Wildfire of the Year Forces Evacuations
A fast-moving California wildfire exploded to become the state’s biggest of the year, forcing evacuations and the closure of ...
Madre Fire, California’s biggest this year, surges to 52,000 acres
The fire sparked in the Los Padres National Forest in San Luis Obispo County and was growing exponentially, officials warned.
Madre Fire in California explodes to more than 52,000 acres in 1 day
The Madre Fire ignited Wednesday afternoon in San Luis Obispo County and has since grown to more than 35,500 acres, according ...
Madre Fire burning over 35,000 acres in California, largest in the state this year
The fire has prompted evacuation orders, warnings, and highway closures in San Luis Obispo County around 100 miles north of ...
Madre Fire map: Evacuations for California’s largest wildfire of 2025
The Madre Fire was reported shortly after noon Wednesday, July 2, along Highway 166 about 25 miles east of Santa Maria.
Trump wants to open 600,000 acres in California’s Los Padres Forest to logging and roads
More than 600,000 acres of the Los Padres National Forest in California could re-open to industrial logging and road-building ...
Madre Fire grows to 35,000 acres, California's largest wildfire this year
A wildfire in a remote part of San Luis Obispo County is rapidly growing, with smoke spreading to neighboring Ventura and ...
CA data: just one Palisades brush clearance before fire
State data shows the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention carried out only one brush clearance operation in ...
Madre Fire explodes in size, becoming California's largest wildfire this year
The Madre Fire is the largest wildfire in California in 2025 — surpassing the Los Angeles-area fires that devastated parts of ...
California’s Madre Fire surges across 52,000 acres to become state’s biggest blaze this year
The Madre Fire has more than doubled the size of California’s second-largest wildfire this year, as it races through the Los ...
Madre Fire Map: California Wildfire Engulfed 35,000 Acres in 24 Hours
At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest.
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275-acre Horse Fire largest of 29 lightning-sparked wildfires in Shasta-Trinity Forest
What we know about the 200-acre Horse Fire and other lightning-sparked fires in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.