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Map: Gifford Fire grows 10,000 acres overnight to become California’s biggest wildfire of 2025
Gifford started along Highway 166 east of Santa Maria, adjacent to the footprint of the year’s previous biggest fire: Madre, which last month burned 80,779 acres in the Carrizo Plain area. Evacuation orders for Gifford covered almost 600 square miles, and Highway 166 was closed between Highway 101 and New Cuyama.
The nuclear power plant has reduced output from one of its units due its transmission lines’ proximity to the fire.
The Gifford Fire, which has burned over 82,000 acres since it began on Friday, is now accompanied by two other wildfires in Central California.
A massive wildfire burning in eastern San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties is now California’s largest wildfire of the ...
On Tuesday afternoon, it surpassed the state's then-largest fire, the Madre Fire, which scorched about 81,000 acres in the ...
The blaze threatened about 450 structures and forced the closure of the highway in both directions east of Santa Maria, a ...
A fierce forest fire was raging in the US state of California on Tuesday, forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes.
Gifford Fire initially started 3:44 p.m. Aug. 1 in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara County, California. Since its discovery ...
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