2025 San Luis Obispo County, California Wildfires
Newest wildfires in San Luis Obispo County
Largest wildfires in San Luis Obispo County this season
All 2025 San Luis Obispo County Fires · 6 fires
A fire is listed here when it is located in San Luis Obispo 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 San Luis Obispo County, not its whole reported size. A fire located elsewhere that burned into San Luis Obispo County is listed too, at its San Luis Obispo County acres, and is not added to the San Luis Obispo County fire counts. County lines come from a different boundary dataset than state lines, so San Luis Obispo County's acres are counted along county lines and can differ a little at the edges from the figures on the state page.
| Fire | Start date | Containment | Status | Acres | Center | Ignition point |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 Madre Fire | Jul 3, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 80,779 | 35.1169, -119.8933 | 35.1107, -120.0898 |
| Bitter Fire | Jun 14, 2025 | — | Inactive | 863 | 35.5399, -120.1593 | — |
| Alma Fire | Oct 4, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 107 | 35.3070, -119.8610 | — |
| Hutton Fire | Aug 28, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 20 | 34.9910, -120.4380 | — |
| Walnut Fire | Sep 5, 2025 | 100% | Inactive | 13 | 35.2330, -120.7540 | — |
| Chimineas Fire | Oct 1, 2025 | — | Inactive | 0 | 35.0716, -119.9953 | 35.0716, -119.9949 |
| Also burned into San Luis Obispo County | ||||||
| Gifford Fire from Santa Barbara County | Aug 2, 2025 | 97% | Inactive | 66,002 of 131,614 | 35.1149, -120.0894 | — |
| Totals | 2025 Season Fires 6 | Active Fires 0 | Acres Burning 0 | 2025 Season Acres 147,784 | ||
Land cover · San Luis Obispo County 2025
Burned acres in San Luis Obispo 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 · San Luis Obispo County 2025
Burned forest acres in San Luis Obispo 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 · San Luis Obispo County 2025
Burned acres in San Luis Obispo 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.