The Gifford Fire has reached "mega fire" status at over 119,000 acres burned and has become California's largest fire this ...

The Gifford Fire in central California has burned more than 119,000 acres as of early Monday, having expanded to reach ...

Gifford started along Highway 166 east of Santa Maria, adjacent to the footprint of the year’s previous biggest fire: Madre, ...

The Gifford Fire burning in California's Santa Barbara County has reached 'mega fire' status as the Golden State swelters in ...

The Gifford Fire has scorched more than 96,000 acres of California’s Central Coast, becoming the state’s largest wildfire of ...

As of Tuesday, Aug. 5, the Gifford Fire had scorched more than 82,000 acres, triggering evacuations and closing a key stretch ...

The nuclear power plant has reduced output from one of its units due its transmission lines’ proximity to the fire.

Santa Margarita residents have played host to a fire camp of thousands of fire crew personnel responding to the Gifford Fire.

Nearly 2,000 firefighters are fighting a battle against the Gifford wildfire in central California that has already burned more than 72,000 acres.

The map above shows Gifford’s evacuation area in red and the approximate fire perimeter as a black line. Shown as a gray tone ...

Temporary evacuation sites were established at Benjamin Foxen Elementary School in Santa Maria and the Cuyama Valley Family Resource Center in New Cuyama, Cal Fire said. The agency also reported that ...

California’s largest wildfire of 2025 has exploded in size, prompting urgent evacuations as fire-fueling heat grips the ...