Timber Canyon Fire

Wildfire in Ventura County, October 1967

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/2331/timber-canyon-fire-1967

Key facts

Started October 16, 1967
Contained Not recorded
Burned 10,842 acres
6th largest fire of 1967
Cause Not recorded
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Where it burned

County

  1. Ventura County 10,840 acres

Community

  1. Santa Paula 118 acres

Acres are the land the fire burned in each county and community, and places where it burned less than an acre are not listed. Communities are cities, towns and the unincorporated places the Census Bureau names, so land outside any of them is counted only in its county.

The same land, other fires

Burned before

  1. 1911 Unnamed fire 485 acres in total 2 acres shared
  2. 1920 Unnamed fire 183 acres in total 171 acres shared
  3. 1922 Unnamed fire 443 acres in total 337 acres shared
  4. 1927 Unnamed fire 3,360 acres in total 3,171 acres shared
  5. 1927 Unnamed fire 655 acres in total 83 acres shared
  6. 1929 Unnamed fire 50 acres shared
  7. 1931 Unnamed fire 69 acres in total 68 acres shared
  8. 1932 Matilija Fire 219,999 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 559 acres shared
  9. 1936 Boosey Fire 1,031 acres shared
  10. 1939 Unnamed fire 167 acres shared
  11. 1951 Mud Creek Fire 436 acres in total 342 acres shared
  12. 1953 Mud Fire 247 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 220 acres shared
  13. 1957 Unnamed fire 568 acres shared
  14. 1957 Boulder Creek Fire 952 acres in total 31 acres shared
  15. 1962 Santa Paula Canyon Fire 2,163 acres in total 1,968 acres shared

Burned again

  1. 1985 Ferndale Fire 46,805 acres in total · Cause: Arson 5,956 acres shared
  2. 1996 Grand Fire 10,950 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 5,140 acres shared
  3. 2017 Thomas Fire 281,791 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 10,720 acres shared

Acres are the land each fire shares with the Timber Canyon Fire, and fires that shared less than an acre are not counted. Some older or smaller fires may be missing, and a fire perimeter can include unburned patches. How to read fire history

Sources

Fire history
CAL FIRE Fire and Resource Assessment Program
Published 28 July 2026
Building damage
CAL FIRE Damage Inspection
Updated 19 October 2026

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