2025 Butte County, California Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
7 2025 Season Fires ▲ +6 (+600%) vs same period last year
1,135 2025 Season Acres ▼ -428,468 (-100%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Butte County

Sep 2 Started 18 acres 14 football fields Granite Fire
Sep 2 Started 36 acres 28 football fields Forebay Fire
Aug 26 Started 10 acres 8 football fields 6-3 Fire
Aug 26 Started 951 acres Slightly larger than Central Park 6-2 Fire
Jul 4 Started 78 acres 60 football fields Grove Fire
Jul 4 Started 42 acres 32 football fields District Fire

Largest wildfires in Butte County this season

951 Acres Slightly larger than Central Park 6-2 Fire Chico
78 Acres 60 football fields Grove Fire Bangor
42 Acres 32 football fields District Fire Palermo
36 Acres 28 football fields Forebay Fire Chico
18 Acres 14 football fields Granite Fire Chico
10 Acres 8 football fields 6-3 Fire Chico

All 2025 Butte County Fires · 7 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Butte County. Each complex is counted once, through its parent: the parent carries the complex's acres, and its member fires are listed beneath it without being counted again. A fire that crossed a county line is listed with the acres that burned in Butte County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Butte County is listed too, at its Butte County acres, and is not added to the Butte County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Butte County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.

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Fire Start date Containment Status Acres Center Ignition point
6-2 Fire Aug 26, 2025 — Inactive 951 39.5090, -121.6330 —
Grove Fire Jul 4, 2025 — Inactive 78 39.3751, -121.4134 —
District Fire Jul 4, 2025 — Inactive 42 39.4482, -121.4831 —
Forebay Fire Sep 2, 2025 100% Inactive 36 39.5250, -121.6120 —
Granite Fire Sep 2, 2025 100% Inactive 18 39.8933, -121.4520 —
6-3 Fire Aug 26, 2025 100% Inactive 10 39.5240, -121.6510 —
Dustin Fire Jun 28, 2025 — Inactive 0 39.4267, -121.5019 —
Totals 2025 Season Fires 7 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2025 Season Acres 1,135

Land cover · Butte County 2025

Burned acres in Butte County for the 2025 season, split by the kind of land that burned. Each figure counts the LANDFIRE 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Forest ownership · Butte County 2025

Burned forest acres in Butte County for the 2025 season, split by who owns the land. Owners are mapped for forestland, so every figure here counts burned cells whose LANDFIRE lifeform is Tree. The Fires tab carries the season acreage this site reports.

Burn severity · Butte County 2025

Burned acres in Butte County for the 2025 season, split by how severely each cell of ground burned. Each figure counts the 30 m cells inside a fire's latest mapped perimeter, measured from satellite imagery. The Fires tab carries the reported season acreage.

Severity comes from the differenced normalized burn ratio (dNBR), the same index the federal burn severity programs publish, classified with the standard thresholds.

This is an initial assessment. Trees keep dying for months after a burn, so severity in forest reads conservative until the official assessments arrive after the season.

Search Fires

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🔥 Granite Fire 2025
Started: Sep 02 18 acre 100% contained
🔥 Forebay Fire 2025
Started: Sep 02 36 acre 100% contained
🔥 6-3 Fire 2025
Started: Aug 26 10 acre 100% contained
🔥 6-2 Fire 2025
Started: Aug 26 951 acre
🔥 Grove Fire 2025
Started: Jul 4 78 acre
🔥 District Fire 2025
Started: Jul 4 42 acre