2026 Calaveras County, California Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
7 2026 Season Fires ▲ +3 (+75%) vs same period last year
10,476 2026 Season Acres ▲ +7,977 (+319%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Calaveras County

Aug 21 Started 19 acres 15 football fields Ross Fire
Aug 20 Started 19 acres 15 football fields Loma Fire
Aug 4 Started 10,339 acres 2.0x the size of JFK Airport Slightly smaller than Manhattan Gann Fire
Jul 21 Started 13 acres 10 football fields Columbus Fire
Jul 10 Started 12 acres 9 football fields Paws Fire
Jun 10 Started 46 acres 35 football fields Turkey Fire

Largest wildfires in Calaveras County this season

10,339 Acres 2.0x the size of JFK Airport Slightly smaller than Manhattan Gann Fire Rancho Calaveras
46 Acres 35 football fields Turkey Fire Camanche North Shore
28 Acres 22 football fields Swiss Fire Fort Jones
19 Acres 15 football fields Ross Fire Murphys
19 Acres 15 football fields Loma Fire Mountain Ranch
13 Acres 10 football fields Columbus Fire Rancho Calaveras

All 2026 Calaveras County Fires · 7 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Calaveras 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 Calaveras County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Calaveras County is listed too, at its Calaveras County acres, and is not added to the Calaveras County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Calaveras 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
Gann Fire Aug 4, 2026 100% Inactive 10,339 38.1153, -120.7327 38.1124, -120.7742
Turkey Fire Jun 10, 2026 100% Inactive 46 38.2150, -120.9136 —
Swiss Fire Apr 7, 2026 100% Inactive 28 38.3060, -120.4050 —
Ross Fire Aug 21, 2026 100% Inactive 19 38.1120, -120.4988 —
Loma Fire Aug 20, 2026 100% Inactive 19 38.2700, -120.4960 —
Columbus Fire Jul 21, 2026 100% Inactive 13 38.0960, -120.8730 —
Paws Fire Jul 10, 2026 100% Inactive 12 38.1910, -120.6910 —
Totals 2026 Season Fires 7 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 10,476

Land cover · Calaveras County 2026

Burned acres in Calaveras County for the 2026 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 · Calaveras County 2026

Burned forest acres in Calaveras County for the 2026 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 · Calaveras County 2026

Burned acres in Calaveras County for the 2026 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.

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🔥 Ross Fire 2026
Started: Aug 21 19 acre 100% contained
🔥 Loma Fire 2026
Started: Aug 20 19 acre 100% contained
🔥 Gann Fire 2026
Started: Aug 04 10,339 acre 100% contained
🔥 Columbus Fire 2026
Started: Jul 21 13 acre 100% contained
🔥 Paws Fire 2026
Started: Jul 10 12 acre 100% contained
🔥 Turkey Fire 2026
Started: Jun 10 46 acre 100% contained