The fire has scorched at least 131 square miles of Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties, with just 9% containment.

The Gifford Fire in San Luis Obispo County has surged past 100,000 acres, reaching “megafire” status and becoming the largest wildfire in California so far in 2025, according to Cal Fire .

The Gifford Fire rages to more than 82,000 acres of destruction. The photos from the frontlines show how intense the ...

Gifford started along Highway 166 east of Santa Maria, adjacent to the footprint of the year’s previous biggest fire: Madre, ...

With the Gifford Fire burning just a few miles away east of Santa Maria, the Santa Maria Air Tanker Base is providing ...

Firefighters battling the Gifford Fire may be approaching a turning point, as officials express cautious optimism amid ...

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

The Gifford Fire was first reported Friday near the Gifford trailhead in Los Padres National Forest, around 15 miles east of ...

More than 800 structures are threatened by a massive wildfire in central California that left at least three people injured ...

Temporary evacuation sites were established at Benjamin Foxen Elementary School in Santa Maria and the Cuyama Valley Family ...