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Wildfires in Fresno

Fresno, United States, has had 19 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 159,232 hectares burned inside the county, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 3).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Wed 4 Very low 16° · 69 % · 26 km/h
  2. Thu 5 Very low 20° · 55 % · 21 km/h
  3. Fri 6 Very low 21° · 49 % · 15 km/h
  4. Sat 7 Low 24° · 41 % · 14 km/h
  5. Sun 8 Low 23° · 39 % · 19 km/h
  6. Mon 9 Low 24° · 38 % · 21 km/h
  7. Tue 10 Low 23° · 40 % · 20 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The county and its fires

Since 2016

159,232
hectares burned
10 %
of the county
19
fires
15,599
km²

How many times has Fresno burned?

Fresno has burned 19 times since 2016, in 8 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Tumey Fire, April 2026, with 664 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 159,232 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 143,013 hectares, 9.2 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 4× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4.   19
  5. 4× 20
  6.   21
  7.   22
  8. 1× 23
  9. 1× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 1× 26
19
fires
8
years with fire
159,232
cumulative ha
143,013
distinct ha

Fires larger than 400 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in United States

Fires that entered Fresno

  1. 664 ha Tumey Fire, April 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 663 ha in total · 1 day
  2. 10,205 ha Salt Fire, September 2025 where it started 0.6% of the county · 10,352 ha in total · 7 days
  3. 25,027 ha Garnet Fire, August 2025 where it started 1.6% of the county · 24,290 ha in total · 8 days
  4. 7,044 ha Boone Fire, September 2024 where it started 0.4% of the county · 7,167 ha in total · 4 days
  5. 175 ha Rabbit Fire, September 2023 0.0% of the county · 1,161 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 79,000 ha Creek Fire, September 2020 where it started 5.1% of the county · 154,872 ha in total · 63 days
  7. 34 ha Moraine Fire, August 2020 0.0% of the county · 487 ha in total · 77 days
  8. 796 ha Hills Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 808 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 11,106 ha Mineral Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.7% of the county · 12,104 ha in total · 8 days
  10. 411 ha Nees Fire, May 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 744 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 398 ha Park Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 726 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 11,716 ha Garza Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.8% of the county · 19,618 ha in total · 11 days
  13. 643 ha Derrick Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 654 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 4,317 ha Elm 2 Fire, May 2017 where it started 0.3% of the county · 4,360 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 1,879 ha Jayne Fire, April 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,894 ha in total · 2 days
  16. 925 ha Sacata Fire, October 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 924 ha in total · 4 days
  17. 2,752 ha Mineral Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.2% of the county · 2,775 ha in total · 3 days
  18. 1,008 ha Goose Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,007 ha in total · 3 days
  19. 1,133 ha Curry Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,149 ha in total · 1 day

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from MTBS (USGS and USDA Forest Service) and NIFC, in the public domain; county boundaries come from geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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