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California wildfire perimeters, 2020–2025

Historical California fire perimeters from CAL FIRE FRAP for the 2020 through 2025 fire years.

Preview of California wildfire perimeters, 2020–2025
CAL FIRE FRAP

About this dataset

  • This view uses the annual historical fire perimeter layer, not live incident updates.
  • The source includes mapped fires across public and private land. It does not include every fire.
  • Use fire year and reported acres to compare past fire footprints.
  • The area field comes from the source. It is not recalculated from the simplified boundary.
  • The 2020–2025 selection was retrieved on 15 September 2026. Boundaries can contain mapping errors and are not a current risk forecast.

Source and licence

CAL FIRE FRAP

Licence: California open data terms

GeoJSON download details

The download includes all 2,558 features as area groups, areas. Coordinates use longitude and latitude in WGS84.

The preparation date is when we prepared this dataset. Read the source notes for the dates covered by the data.

GeoJSON fields 5
name
Source fire name and year.
year
Source fire year.
acres
Source mapped perimeter area in acres.
source_id
IRWIN or source global identifier.
source_url
CAL FIRE source documentation.