Deep guides to the California counties where fuel reduction matters most — each with its fire history, terrain, official grazing programs, and links to our city pages within it.
San Diego County wrote the modern defensible-space playbook the hard way: the 2003 Cedar Fire (273,000+ acres) and 2007 Witch Creek Fire remain among the largest in state history, and both burned deep into suburban neighborhoods.
County guide →The January 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires — among the most destructive in California history — redefined what LA County expects from fire weather.
County guide →Orange County's fire story runs from the 1993 Laguna Fire (441 homes) through the 2017 Canyon Fire 2 in Anaheim Hills to the 2020 Silverado Fire's mass evacuations in Irvine and the 2022 Coastal Fire in Laguna Niguel.
County guide →Riverside County pairs two fire regimes: fast grass-and-brush fires along the Santa Ana River corridor and its arroyos, and wind-driven desert-edge fires through the passes toward the Coachella Valley.
County guide →Ventura County has hosted some of the state's defining recent fires: the 2017 Thomas Fire (281,000 acres, briefly the largest in modern state history), the 2018 Woolsey Fire's path toward Malibu, and the 2019 Easy Fire — where a grazed firebreak famously helped firefighters save the Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley.
County guide →The 2017 Tubbs Fire burned into the heart of Santa Rosa and destroyed entire neighborhoods; the Nuns Fire burned the Sonoma Valley the same month, and the 2020 Glass Fire returned three years later.
County guide →The 1991 Tunnel Fire in the Oakland hills — 25 lives, nearly 3,000 homes — remains the fire the entire East Bay measures against, and it made Alameda County one of California's earliest and most committed adopters of goat grazing.
County guide →The 2020 SCU Lightning Complex — one of the largest fires in state history — burned the Diablo Range east of San Jose, while the county's western foothills carry fuel toward some of the most valuable real estate on earth.
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