Ballard Fire initially started 3:21 p.m. July 5 in Santa Barbara County, California. It has been burning on private land for ...

Evacuation orders were issued near Highway 166. The highway is closed from U.S. 101 near Santa Maria to Perkins Road in the ...

Santa Barbara County firefighters have stopped the forward progress of a one acre fire near Ballard on July 5, 2025.

Evacuation orders are in place for rural areas near State Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest in San Luis Obispo ...

A large contingent of firefighters quickly doused a vegetation fire in the Ballard Canyon area of the Santa Ynez Valley on ...

A vegetation fire started in Santa Ynez Valley at about 3:18 pm, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. Santa ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 3:21 p.m. in Santa Barbara County, California. Ballard Fire has been burning on private ...

A fast-moving vegetation fire burned has 9,800 acres and forced evacuations near Highway 166 in the southeastern corner of ...

Back in the mid-1990s, Steve Beckmen was the first vintner in Santa Barbara County to tune deeply into biodynamic farming. He spread the practice to both his family’s Los Olivos District estate — ...

Readiness For many years, a wildland solution has been plotted by local fire departments, all of which have an engrained experience with wildfire in Santa Barbara. Firefighters, helicopter pilots, ...

The Lake fire in Santa Barbara County, California’s largest so far this year, has grown to 37,742 acres, but firefighters have worked to contain the blaze around the Santa Ynez and Los Olivos ...

At 26,176 acres, the Lake Fire near Santa Barbara is the biggest blaze burning in California right now. The latest maps released by Cal Fire show the Lake Fire spreading from Zaca Lake in Los ...