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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, ...

Diablo Canyon scales back power as Gifford Fire grows to California’s largest in 2025

The nuclear power plant has reduced output from one of its units due its transmission lines’ proximity to the fire.

After short reprieve, heat and fire weather to return in SoCal

As cooler, wetter weather helps southern and central California fire crews contain a handful of blazes burning in the region, ...

Gifford Fire sent up a towering smoke plume on Tuesday. What happened?

A dramatically large and dark column of smoke dominated the sky Tuesday as the Gifford Fire continued to burn in San Luis ...

Gifford Fire: Massive blaze in central California threatens more than 800 structures and leaves 3 injured

The Gifford Fire scorched more than 113 square miles of coastal Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with 3% ...

Gifford Fire Map, Update as California Blaze Hits Major Milestone

CAL FIRE wrote on X on Friday: "California is under a heat wave, bringing hot, dry, and windy conditions, making wildfires ...

The Gifford Fire isn’t the largest blaze in SLO County history. How it compares

The Gifford Fire is massive — but it’s not the largest blaze the Central Coast has ever seen. After burning for 15 days, the Gifford Fire scorched 132,605 acres in the backcountry of San Luis Obispo ...