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Wildfires in Kern

Kern, United States, has had 37 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 94,884 hectares burned inside the county, 4.5% of its area. Fire danger today: low (FWI 11).

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. Fri 30 Moderate 24° · 35 % · 28 km/h
  2. Sat 31 Low 22° · 50 % · 16 km/h
  3. Sun 1 Very low 18° · 64 % · 26 km/h
  4. Mon 2 Very low 20° · 51 % · 16 km/h
  5. Tue 3 Very low 24° · 47 % · 18 km/h
  6. Wed 4 Very low 20° · 49 % · 26 km/h
  7. Thu 5 Low 20° · 50 % · 20 km/h
  8. Fri 6 Low 20° · 41 % · 19 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

94,884
hectares burned
4.5 %
of the county
37
fires
21,197
km²

How many times has Kern burned?

Kern has burned 37 times since 2016, in 11 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Antelope Fire, August 2026, with 127 hectares inside the municipality. Together they add up to 94,884 hectares burned inside the municipality, but the distinct burned area is 91,618 hectares, 4.3 % of its surface: part of it burned more than once.

  1. 3× 16
  2. 6× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 1× 19
  5. 2× 20
  6. 4× 21
  7. 1× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9. 6× 24
  10. 2× 25
  11. 7× 26
37
fires
11
years with fire
94,884
cumulative ha
91,618
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 Kern

  1. 127 ha Antelope Fire, August 2026 0.0% of the county · 975 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 3,159 ha Lost Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,167 ha in total · 2 days
  3. 416 ha Wyly Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 435 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 1,438 ha River Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,431 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 768 ha Canyon Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 809 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 1,001 ha Tower Fire, May 2026 where it started 0.0% of the county · 999 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 3 ha Paramount Fire, March 2026 0.0% of the county · 561 ha in total · 1 day
  8. 1,014 ha Little Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,014 ha in total · 6 days
  9. 66 ha Springs Fire, May 2025 0.0% of the county · 735 ha in total · 1 day
  10. 414 ha Dove Fire, October 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 409 ha in total · 1 day
  11. 24,226 ha Borel Fire, July 2024 where it started 1.1% of the county · 24,118 ha in total · 8 days
  12. 2,334 ha White Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,346 ha in total · 8 days
  13. 2,857 ha Hurricane Fire, July 2024 where it started 0.1% of the county · 5,463 ha in total · 1 day
  14. 368 ha Road Fire, June 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 466 ha in total · 1 day
  15. 613 ha School Fire, May 2024 where it started 0.0% of the county · 620 ha in total · 1 day
  16. 2,404 ha Almond Fire, August 2023 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,392 ha in total · 1 day
  17. 413 ha Kern fire, August 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 430 ha in total · 1 day
  18. 685 ha East Fire, 1 August 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 683 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 433 ha District Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 433 ha in total · 2 days
  20. 1,043 ha Thunder Fire, June 2022 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,045 ha in total · 4 days
  21. 11,147 ha French Fire, 18 August 2021 where it started 0.5% of the county · 11,057 ha in total · 23 days
  22. 935 ha Peak Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 937 ha in total · 4 days
  23. 815 ha Shell Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 828 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 638 ha Owens Fire, May 2021 where it started 0.0% of the county · 626 ha in total · 1 day
  25. 3,132 ha Stagecoach Fire, August 2020 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,120 ha in total · 7 days
  26. 1,264 ha Bena Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,261 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 1,396 ha Refuge Fire, May 2019 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,384 ha in total · 1 day
  28. 2,007 ha Tarina Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,012 ha in total · 8 days
  29. 621 ha Caldwell Fire, September 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 615 ha in total · 3 days
  30. 597 ha Garden Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 601 ha in total · 3 days
  31. 367 ha Hudson Fire, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 480 ha in total · 1 day
  32. 806 ha Quail Complex, July 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 807 ha in total · 1 day
  33. 514 ha Tarina Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 509 ha in total · 1 day
  34. 686 ha Highway Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 685 ha in total · 3 days
  35. 5,858 ha Cedar Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the county · 11,809 ha in total · 16 days
  36. 762 ha Deer Fire, July 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 763 ha in total · 3 days
  37. 19,556 ha Erskine Fire, June 2016 where it started 0.9% of the county · 19,444 ha in total · 18 days

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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