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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.
The fire is burning with dry and hot conditions, as temperatures climb above 100 degrees in mountainous terrain on the Central Coast.
The Gifford Fire burning through the rugged backcountry of California's Central Coast is now the state's largest wildfire of ...
Planned work on Highway 101 in southern San Luis Obispo County has been postponed due to the Gifford Fire. According to ...
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The fire has scorched at least 131 square miles of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with just 9% containment.
The nuclear power plant has reduced output from one of its units due its transmission lines’ proximity to the fire.
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California’s largest wildfire of 2025 is growing rapidly, prompting urgent evacuations as fire-fueling heat grips the region.
Another wildfire is burning in California, this one in the mountains north of Los Angeles. The Canyon Fire has already burned ...
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