Piru Incident Fire

Wildfire in Ventura County, October 1998

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/5351/piru-incident-fire-1998

Key facts

Started October 18, 1998
Contained Not recorded
Burned 12,613 acres
2nd largest fire of 1998
Cause Not recorded
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Where it burned

County

  1. Ventura County 12,606 acres

Communities

  1. Fillmore 90 acres
  2. Piru 80 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. 1912 Unnamed fire 913 acres shared
  2. 1912 Unnamed fire 127 acres in total 122 acres shared
  3. 1914 Unnamed fire 189 acres in total 183 acres shared
  4. 1917 Unnamed fire 44,009 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 380 acres shared
  5. 1918 Unnamed fire 2,291 acres in total 520 acres shared
  6. 1922 Unnamed fire 493 acres in total 419 acres shared
  7. 1952 Warring Canyon Fire 2,383 acres in total 576 acres shared
  8. 1954 Hopper Fire 3,084 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 1,992 acres shared
  9. 1961 Donlon & Fletcher Fire 2,426 acres in total 2,023 acres shared
  10. 1963 Squaw Flat Fire 439 acres in total 81 acres shared
  11. 1967 Warring Canyon Fire 4,269 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 126 acres shared
  12. 1971 Goodenough Fire 2,255 acres in total 2,141 acres shared
  13. 1983 Hopper Canyon Fire 232 acres in total 208 acres shared
  14. 1984 Squaw Flat Fire 6,088 acres in total 5,030 acres shared
  15. 1990 Pole Fire 255 acres shared
  16. 1997 Hopper Fire 24,797 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 2,461 acres shared

Burned again

  1. 2003 Piru Fire 63,726 acres in total · Cause: Equipment use 12,186 acres shared
  2. 2007 Ranch Fire 58,410 acres in total · Cause: Equipment use 4,193 acres shared
  3. 2013 Goodenough Fire 145 acres in total · Cause: Power lines 103 acres shared
  4. 2013 Condor Fire 26 acres in total 25 acres shared

And 3 more fires that burned less of the same land. Acres are the land each fire shares with the Piru Incident 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