Name: Wildfire in California, June 28, 2025
Start: 2025-06-28T14:28
End: 2025-06-28T14:28
Location: California

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.

Elevated fire weather conditions due to the gusty winds and low humidity.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 28, 12:52 PM PST, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 12:52 PM PST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service San Diego CA
152 PM PDT Sat Jun 28 2025

.SYNOPSIS...
High temperatures will warm a few to around 5 degrees this weekend
with high temperatures within a few degrees of average to around
5 degrees above average. High temperatures will then cool about 5
degrees through the middle part of next week with high
temperatures on Thursday around average to around 5 degrees below
average for the valleys. The marine layer lowers some this
weekend, but lifts again early next week, with night and morning
coastal low clouds spreading into the western valleys, clearing by
the mid-late mornings.

&&

.DISCUSSION...FOR EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA INCLUDING ORANGE...
SAN DIEGO...WESTERN RIVERSIDE AND SOUTHWESTERN SAN BERNARDINO
COUNTIES...

A warm and dry weekend is on tap as the subtropical ridge axis
stretches over southern California. This is resulting in
temperatures across the inland valleys reaching the upper 80s to low
90s in the San Diego county valleys and the mid to upper 90s for
the Inland Empire, while the deserts see highs 105-110. While
these temperatures are only about 5 degrees above average for the
inland valleys, today/Sunday will still feature the hottest
temperatures of the week as the ridge retreats eastward. A fairly
stagnant upper level pattern is then established late Sunday with
the ridge now in place across the Four Corners and a cut-off low
centered about 200- 300 miles off the coast of California. This
pattern persists through mid-week when the trough slides eastward
over California on Wednesday into Thursday. Through this stagnant
pattern, the deserts stay hot Monday into Tuesday while the inland
valleys are a little cooler. Still, the deserts very slowly cool
Monday through Wednesday. The pattern begins to grow more
uncertainty Thursday through the end of the week. Within this
uncertainty, what appears more certain is the increase in
monsoonal activity, although staying east of SoCal.

&&

.AVIATION...
282100Z....Coast/Valleys...VFR conditions this afternoon. Low clouds
based 700-1200 ft MSL redevelop and push inland tonight up to 5-10
miles with similar or slightly lower bases generally after 04z.
Areas of 1-5SM visibility for western valleys and higher coastal
terrain. Locally below a mile 11-14z Sun. Clearing 15-17z.

.Mountains/Deserts...SW/W wind gusts 25-35 kts across the deserts
and mountain passes this afternoon and early evening leading to MOD
UDDFS at times. Winds weaken substantially by 06z Sunday.

&&

.MARINE...
Periods of gusty northwest winds around 15 to 18 knots possible in
the outer coastal waters near San Clemente Island this afternoon and
evening. Otherwise, no hazardous marine conditions are expected
through Wednesday.

&&

.SGX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
CA...None.
PZ...None.

&&

PUBLIC...Munyan
AVIATION/MARINE...Westerink

The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, San Bernardino County Mountains

When: June 28, 2:28 PM PST
Where: San Bernardino County Mountains forecast zone
Reported by: Fire Department/Rescue
Coordinates: 34.841, -116.178 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Lake Fire started around 4pm on June 28th on the western slopes of Silverwood Lake. As of 8pm on the 28th, fire is near 500 acres and has prompted evacuation warnings and orders in the area. Road closure on Highway 138 from Old Mill to Interstate 15 and Highway 173 at highway 138 to Summit Valley Road. The fire ended on July 6th at 10 PM with a total 489 acres burned according to CalFire website. Silverwood Lake State Recreational Area remains closed to the public.

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1275202.