Salt Fire
The Salt Fire was reported on September 2, 2025 in Fresno County, California and burned 25,643 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 25,643 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 2, 2025
- Personnel
- 899
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 September 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM PDT, 25,580 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 36.099, -120.311.
The incident
- Size
- 25,643 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 2, 2025 at 3:00 AM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- 6 Miles S from Coalinga, CA
- County
- Fresno County
- State
- California
- Nearest city reported
- Coalinga
- Protecting agency
- CAL FIRE
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 899
- Incident management
- Type 1 Team, Type 1 Incident
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $27,145,913
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2025-CAFKU-018739
- IRWIN identifier
- 7F4A1474-6439-44F3-8F0D-083DCFD33639
Growth
Mapped area at the last perimeter of each day, from September 3, 2025 (12,093 acres) to September 7, 2025 (25,580 acres). The largest one-day growth was 5,545 acres, mapped September 4, 2025.
| Day | Acres | Change |
|---|---|---|
| September 3, 2025 | 12,093 | |
| September 4, 2025 | 17,638 | +5,545 |
| September 5, 2025 | 22,488 | +4,850 |
| September 6, 2025 | 23,151 | +663 |
| September 7, 2025 | 25,580 | +2,429 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Coalinga, CA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Coalinga, CA4 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Avenal, CA12 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Huron, CA14 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Kettleman City, CA21 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Lemoore Station, CA25 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Stratford, CA28 miles east 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 December 12, 2025 at 1:15 PM PST. Identifier 2025-CAFKU-018739.