2026 Sacramento County, California Wildfires

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0 Active Fires
0 Acres Burning
4 2026 Season Fires ▼ -1 (-20%) vs same period last year
217 2026 Season Acres ▼ -64 (-23%) vs same period last year

Newest wildfires in Sacramento County

Sep 30 Started 15 acres 12 football fields Clay Fire
Jul 29 Started 15 acres 12 football fields 160 Fire
Jul 17 Started 167 acres 128 football fields Garden Fire
Jun 27 Started 20 acres 15 football fields Katena Fire

Largest wildfires in Sacramento County this season

167 Acres 128 football fields Garden Fire Knights Landing
20 Acres 15 football fields Katena Fire Clay
15 Acres 12 football fields Clay Fire Clay
15 Acres 12 football fields 160 Fire Rio Vista

All 2026 Sacramento County Fires · 4 fires

A fire is listed here when it is located in Sacramento 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 Sacramento County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into Sacramento County is listed too, at its Sacramento County acres, and is not added to the Sacramento County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so Sacramento 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
Garden Fire Jul 17, 2026 100% Inactive 167 38.7290, -121.6000 —
Katena Fire Jun 27, 2026 100% Inactive 20 38.4330, -121.1650 —
Clay Fire Sep 30, 2026 100% Inactive 15 38.3360, -121.1360 —
160 Fire Jul 29, 2026 — Inactive 15 38.1142, -121.6939 —
Totals 2026 Season Fires 4 Active Fires 0 Acres Burning 0 2026 Season Acres 217

Land cover · Sacramento County 2026

Burned acres in Sacramento 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 · Sacramento County 2026

Burned forest acres in Sacramento 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 · Sacramento County 2026

Burned acres in Sacramento 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.

Search Fires

🔥 Clay Fire 2026
Started: Sep 30 15 acre 100% contained
🔥 160 Fire 2026
Started: Jul 29 15 acre
🔥 Garden Fire 2026
Started: Jul 17 167 acre 100% contained
🔥 Katena Fire 2026
Started: Jun 27 20 acre 100% contained