How Many Acres Burned In California 2025 Schedule. It's not even the midpoint of summer in california and wildfires have already scorched more than 751,000 acres, straining firefighting resources, forcing evacuations and destroying homes. A brush fire burns near homes in pacific palisades, california on january 7, 2025.

Governor newsom has dramatically ramped up state work to increase wildland and forest resilience, as well as adding unprecedented resources to support wildfire response. California rural land area totals 100 million acres, of which, between 90,000 and 1,590,000 acres has burned every year for the past 25 years with 7,000 to almost 10,000 fires.