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Wildfires in Riverside

Riverside, United States, has had 28 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 55,333 hectares burned inside the county, 2.9% of its area. Fire danger today: moderate (FWI 18).

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. Thu 29 Moderate 22° · 43 % · 32 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Moderate 21° · 43 % · 29 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Low 20° · 43 % · 23 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 16° · 73 % · 27 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Low 21° · 25 % · 49 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Moderate 23° · 21 % · 38 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Moderate 21° · 27 % · 27 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

55,333
hectares burned
2.9 %
of the county
28
fires
18,974
km²

How many times has Riverside burned?

Riverside has burned 28 times since 2016, in 10 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Shore. Fire, June 2026, with 1,253 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 5× 17
  3. 3× 18
  4. 2× 19
  5. 6× 20
  6. 1× 21
  7. 2× 22
  8. 4× 23
  9.   24
  10. 3× 25
  11. 1× 26
28
fires
10
years with fire
55,333
cumulative ha
15 Jun 2026
most recent

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 Riverside

  1. 1,253 ha Shore. Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,250 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 672 ha Rosa Fire, August 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 676 ha in total · 3 days
  3. 422 ha Dale Fire, July 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 420 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 966 ha Wolf Fire, 29 June 2025 where it started 0.0% of the county · 966 ha in total · 2 days
  5. 1,014 ha Highland Fire, October 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,023 ha in total · 2 days
  6. 923 ha Bonny Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 922 ha in total · 4 days
  7. 3,503 ha Rabbit Fire, July 2023 where it started 0.2% of the county · 3,490 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 430 ha Geology Fire, June 2023 where it started 0.0% of the county · 431 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 11,623 ha Fairview Fire, September 2022 where it started 0.6% of the county · 11,597 ha in total · 4 days
  10. 2,151 ha Lost Lake Fire, May 2022 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,208 ha in total · 5 days
  11. 50 ha Chaparral Fire, August 2021 0.0% of the county · 648 ha in total · 2 days
  12. 812 ha Sanderson Fire, December 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 812 ha in total · 1 day
  13. 662 ha Airport Fire, December 2020 where it started 0.0% of the county · 658 ha in total · 3 days
  14. 270 ha Blue Ridge Fire, October 2020 0.0% of the county · 5,613 ha in total · 2 days
  15. 2,616 ha Snow Fire, September 2020 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,615 ha in total · 3 days
  16. 45 ha El Dorado Fire, September 2020 0.0% of the county · 9,019 ha in total · 29 days
  17. 8,245 ha Apple Fire, July 2020 where it started 0.4% of the county · 13,089 ha in total · 13 days
  18. 384 ha Sandalwood Fire, October 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 424 ha in total · 1 day
  19. 737 ha Tenaja Fire, September 2019 where it started 0.0% of the county · 737 ha in total · 3 days
  20. 6,200 ha Holy Fire, August 2018 where it started 0.3% of the county · 9,238 ha in total · 8 days
  21. 5,302 ha Cranston Fire, July 2018 where it started 0.3% of the county · 5,295 ha in total · 4 days
  22. 526 ha Patterson Fire, May 2018 where it started 0.0% of the county · 526 ha in total · 1 day
  23. 829 ha Canyon Fire, September 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 1,108 ha in total · 2 days
  24. 1,644 ha Palmer Fire, September 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 1,678 ha in total · 2 days
  25. 454 ha Blaine Fire, August 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 452 ha in total · 1 day
  26. 2,569 ha Manzanita Fire, June 2017 where it started 0.1% of the county · 2,555 ha in total · 2 days
  27. 437 ha Opera Fire, April 2017 where it started 0.0% of the county · 433 ha in total · 2 days
  28. 597 ha Bogart Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.0% of the county · 596 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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