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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.
Gifford Fire burns 83,000 acres, accompanied by 2 other wildfires in California
Since it started on Friday afternoon, the Gifford Fire -- which is situated within the Los Padres National Forest in Solvang, California -- has burned 83,933 acres and has only reached 9% containment, prompting evacuation orders for those in the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, officials said.
With fire crews bracing for hotter, dryer weather, the evacuation zone was expanded for California’s biggest fire of the ...
Smoke from the Gifford Fire was hovering over parts of the county, resulting in sooty air quality and possible ash falling ...
The San Luis Obispo County Air Pollution Control District warned that smoke would impact air quality in SLO County on ...
More than 800 structures are being threatened by a massive wildfire burning through Los Padres National Forest in central ...
The wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest grew to 82,000 acres on Tuesday. Officials are still trying to determine the ...
A wildfire that ignited Friday in Southern California has exploded to tens of thousands of acres as nearly 2,000 firefighters ...
The Gifford fire straddling a rural stretch of the Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo county line continued to grow Monday, ...
The Gifford fire quickly exploded to more than 65,000 acres in size, with experts warning of elevated fire weather conditions ...
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