Burn severity · Santa Barbara County 2026

Back to the Santa Barbara County 2026 Burn severity tab

Download this tab as CSV

Acres by severity and land cover Forest Range (shrubland) Grassland Other Unclassified Acres in Santa Barbara County
Unburned to very low 3 29 3 18 0 53
Low 4 526 81 123 0 734
Moderate low 5 2,238 524 82 0 2,849
Moderate high 11 3,559 936 35 0 4,541
High 148 8,047 2,713 22 0 10,930
Assessed acres in Santa Barbara County 171 14,399 4,256 280 0 19,106
Severity by fire
Fire Reported acres Acres in Santa Barbara County Unburned to very low Low Moderate low Moderate high High
Santa Rosa Island Fire 18,379 18,167 (of 18,379) 48 668 2,280 4,283 10,888
Foothill Fire 904 905 0 59 564 253 30
Drum Fire 40 34 5 6 6 6 12
Fires awaiting assessment
(1)
Fire Reported acres Whole perimeter acres Reason
Santa-Rosa Fire 10,025 — Awaiting a perimeter
Reconciliation
Line Fires Acres
Counted fires 4 29,348
Offered to assessment 4 29,348
Complex roll-up residue — 0
Fires with severity acres 3 19,323
Awaiting a perimeter 1 10,025
Awaiting assessment 0 0
Awaiting clear imagery 0 0
Assessment errors 0 0
Smaller than one cell 0 0
Every cell outside Santa Barbara County 0 0
Assessed acres in Santa Barbara County 3 19,106
Assessed acres outside Santa Barbara County — 212
Whole perimeter acres — 19,318
Burned in from another county 0 0

Generated 2026-09-21 22:44 UTC. Severity appears for wildfires in the lower 48 states and the District of Columbia that have a mapped perimeter. Each fire is assessed again every few days while its post-fire imagery can still improve.

Sentinel-2 dNBR assessed through 2026-09-21 22:44 UTC. LANDFIRE LF2024_EVT for CA. 30 m cells.