California Fire

Wildfire in Riverside County, October 1993

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/4713/california-fire-1993

Key facts

Started October 26, 1993
Contained Not recorded
Burned 24,434 acres
4th largest fire of 1993
Cause Power lines
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Where it burned

County

  1. Riverside County 24,433 acres

Communities

  1. Sage 4,581 acres
  2. French Valley 1,394 acres
  3. Hemet 42 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. 1962 Rawson Fire 12,946 acres in total 10,939 acres shared
  2. 1977 Shipley Fire 321 acres in total 287 acres shared
  3. 1979 Unnamed fire 590 acres in total 2 acres shared
  4. 1979 Skinner Fire 798 acres shared
  5. 1979 Rawson Fire 1,000 acres in total 943 acres shared
  6. 1980 Dell Fire 838 acres in total 291 acres shared
  7. 1981 Bailey Fire 282 acres shared
  8. 1982 Unnamed fire 48 acres shared
  9. 1982 Rawson Fire Cause: Equipment use 1,757 acres shared
  10. 1987 Winchester#1 Fire 1,098 acres shared
  11. 1988 Benton Fire Cause: Campfire 1,783 acres shared
  12. 1988 State Fire 380 acres in total · Cause: Arson 11 acres shared

Burned again

  1. 2003 Barranca Fire 259 acres shared
  2. 2003 Stage Fire 1,571 acres in total · Cause: Equipment use 1,532 acres shared
  3. 2003 Mountain Fire 10,331 acres in total 2,536 acres shared
  4. 2010 Skinner Fire Cause: Lightning 519 acres shared
  5. 2012 Vista Fire Cause: Equipment use 403 acres shared
  6. 2012 Red Fire 46 acres in total · Cause: Equipment use 45 acres shared
  7. 2018 Patterson Fire Cause: Equipment use 1,259 acres shared
  8. 2021 Kathryn Fire 18 acres shared

Acres are the land each fire shares with the California 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

This site is independent and not affiliated with CAL FIRE or the CPUC, so for an official determination, check with the agency or your city or county. How we read the data