The fire is burning with dry and hot conditions, as temperatures climb above 100 degrees in mountainous terrain on the Central Coast.

Gifford Fire initially started 3:44 p.m. Aug. 1 in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara County, California. It has burned 104,402 acres after being active for eight days. A fire crew of 3,685 has been ...

The Gifford fire in central California has burned more than 100,000 acres as of Friday, becoming the state's largest blaze of the year so far. Newsweek has contacted the California Department of ...

California’s largest wildfire of 2025 has exploded in size, prompting urgent evacuations as fire-fueling heat grips the ...

More than 800 structures are being threatened by a massive wildfire burning through Los Padres National Forest in central California ...

As the Gifford Fire stretches into a second week, the most intense portion of the massive blaze is taking place in South San Luis Obispo County, near the rural community of Huasna.

The map above shows Gifford’s evacuation area in red and the approximate fire perimeter as a black line. Shown as a gray tone ...

As of Friday, the Gifford Fire has burned a destructive path through San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties for just ...

The press release below, in English and Spanish, from Direct Relief details free N95 mask distribution sites as the largest ...

Highway 166 has been closed for a week since the Gifford Fire started and will likely remain closed for several more days, ...

The Gifford Fire in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties has officially become the largest fire in California this year.

A massive wildfire continued to burn in Central California, forcing evacuations and threatening hundreds of homes.