Pickett Fire
The Pickett Fire was reported on August 21, 2025 in Napa County, California and burned 6,819 acres. It was fully contained on September 7, 2025.
- Size
- 6,819 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 21, 2025
- Personnel
- 20
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeter mapped August 30, 2025 at 1:09 PM PDT, 6,820 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 38.592, -122.550.
The incident
- Size
- 6,819 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM PDT
- Contained
- September 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- 1 Miles NE from Calistoga, CA
- County
- Napa County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Calistoga
- Protecting agency
- CAL FIRE
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 20
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC, Type 5 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $40,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-CALNU-015521
- IRWIN identifier
- D7CD7F3F-C6E1-48EF-BABE-E88A868A4F68
Growth
Mapped area at the last perimeter of each day, from August 23, 2025 (5,863 acres) to August 30, 2025 (6,820 acres). The largest one-day growth was 789 acres, mapped August 24, 2025.
| Day | Acres | Change |
|---|---|---|
| August 23, 2025 | 5,863 | |
| August 24, 2025 | 6,652 | +789 |
| August 25, 2025 | 6,729 | +77 |
| August 26, 2025 | 6,729 | 0 |
| August 27, 2025 | 6,773 | +44 |
| August 28, 2025 | 6,830 | +57 |
| August 29, 2025 | 6,830 | 0 |
| August 30, 2025 | 6,820 | -10 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Calistoga, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Calistoga, CA2 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Angwin, CA6 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Deer Park, CA6 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Saint Helena, CA7 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Middletown, CA12 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Larkfield-Wikiup, CA12 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated January 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM PST. Identifier 2025-CALNU-015521.