2026 Placer County, California Wildfires

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1 Active Fires
75 Acres Burning 58 football fields
2 2026 Season Fires ▼ -1 (-33%) vs same period last year
76 2026 Season Acres ▲ +10 (+15%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Placer County

Sep 9 Started 1 acres 1 football fields Andressen Fire
Aug 13 Started 75 acres 58 football fields Talbot Fire

Largest wildfires in Placer County this season

75 Acres 58 football fields Talbot Fire Sunnyside-Tahoe City
1 Acres 1 football fields Andressen Fire Sheridan

All 2026 Placer County Fires · 2 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Placer 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 Placer County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Placer County is listed too, at its Placer County acres, and is not added to the Placer County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Placer 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
Talbot Fire Aug 13, 2026 Active 75 39.1767, -120.3809 39.1878, -120.3749
Andressen Fire Sep 9, 2026 Inactive 1 39.0090, -121.3590
Also burned into Placer County
Flat Fire from Nevada County Aug 8, 2026 98% Inactive 0 of 20 39.1937, -120.8650 39.2240, -120.8375
Totals 2026 Season Fires 2 Active Fires 1 Acres Burning 75 2026 Season Acres 76

Land cover · Placer County 2026

Burned acres in Placer 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.

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Acres by cover type Acres in Placer County % of burned % of Placer County
Forest 82 89.2% 58.5%
Range (shrubland) 3 3.4% 9.6%
Grassland 0 0.0% 13.2%
Other 7 7.5% 18.7%
Measured acres in Placer County 92
Measured fires
Fire Reported acres Acres in Placer County Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified
Talbot Fire 75 92 82 3 0 7 0
Fires awaiting measurement
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Andressen Fire 1 Awaiting a perimeter
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 2 76
Offered to measurement 2 76
Complex roll-up residue 0
Fires with cells 1 75
Awaiting a perimeter 1 1
Awaiting measurement 0 0
Measurement errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Placer County 0 0
Measured acres in Placer County 1 92
Measured acres outside Placer County 0
Whole perimeter acres 92
Reported minus measured -17
Burned in from another county 0 0

Forest ownership · Placer County 2026

Burned forest acres in Placer 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.

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Burned forest by owner Forest acres in Placer County % of burned forest % of Placer County's forestland
Public 82 100.0% 61.7%
Federal 82 100.0% 58.5%
State 0 0.0% 2.0%
Local (county, city) 0 0.0% 1.2%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Tribal 0 0.0% 0.0%
Private 0 0.0% 38.3%
Family 0 0.0% 20.6%
Corporate 0 0.0% 11.8%
TIMO/REIT 0 0.0% 0.0%
Other private 0 0.0% 5.9%
Ownership not modeled 0 0.0%
Burned forest in Placer County 82
Fires by owner
Fire Forest acres in Placer County Federal State Local Tribal Private Not modeled
Talbot Fire 82 82 0 0 0 0 0

0 measured fires burned zero forest cells.

Reconciliation
Owner cells 370 82
Land cover Forest cells 370 82
Equal 370

Search Fires

🔥 Talbot Fire Active 2026
Started: Aug 13 75 acre
🔥 Andressen Fire 2026
Started: Sep 09 1 acre