Steckel Fire

Wildfire in Ventura County, October 1993

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/4722/steckel-fire-1993

Key facts

Started October 27, 1993
Contained Not recorded
Burned 27,085 acres
3rd largest fire of 1993
Cause Not recorded
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Where it burned

County

  1. Ventura County 27,081 acres

Community

  1. Santa Paula 7 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. 1921 Unnamed fire 74 acres in total 2 acres shared
  2. 1929 Sulphur Mountain Fire 26,514 acres in total 8,092 acres shared
  3. 1938 La Cuesta Fire 1,702 acres shared
  4. 1939 Harmon Canyon Fire 2,334 acres in total 3 acres shared
  5. 1954 Sulpher Mt. Fire 1,048 acres in total 1,016 acres shared
  6. 1975 Aliso Canyon Fire 1,094 acres shared
  7. 1979 Creek Road Fire 32,706 acres in total 9,222 acres shared
  8. 1985 Mupu Fire 43 acres in total 41 acres shared
  9. 1985 Ferndale Fire 46,805 acres in total · Cause: Arson 24,189 acres shared
  10. 1990 Mupu Fire 522 acres in total 503 acres shared
  11. 1992 Sulphur Fire 86 acres in total 19 acres shared
  12. 1992 Sulphur Fire 903 acres in total 4 acres shared

Burned again

  1. 1994 Aliso I Fire 344 acres in total 23 acres shared
  2. 1999 Sloan Fire 3,438 acres shared
  3. 2013 Wheeler Fire Cause: Equipment use 22 acres shared
  4. 2015 Wheeler Fire 5 acres in total · Cause: Arson 4 acres shared
  5. 2017 Thomas Fire 281,791 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 26,838 acres shared
  6. 2021 Sulphur Fire 4 acres shared

Acres are the land each fire shares with the Steckel 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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