Mccash Fire

Wildfire in Siskiyou County, August 2021

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/8261/mccash-fire-2021

Key facts

Started August 1, 2021
Contained October 27, 2021, after 87 days
Burned 94,971 acres
9th largest fire of 2021 and 53rd largest in California's records
Cause Lightning
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Where it burned

County

  1. Siskiyou County 94,948 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 1,227 acres in total 373 acres shared
  2. 1917 Unnamed fire 10,254 acres in total 7,516 acres shared
  3. 1917 Unnamed fire 6,939 acres shared
  4. 1918 Unnamed fire 29,730 acres in total 18,379 acres shared
  5. 1918 Unnamed fire 10,234 acres in total 1,927 acres shared
  6. 1918 Unnamed fire 1,074 acres shared
  7. 1929 Unnamed fire 943 acres shared
  8. 1929 Unnamed fire 581 acres in total 540 acres shared
  9. 1987 King Titus Fire 68,072 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 41,658 acres shared
  10. 1987 Yellow Fire 51,060 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 5,570 acres shared
  11. 2002 Stanza Fire Cause: Lightning 2,805 acres shared
  12. 2005 Wooley Fire 3,224 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 3,016 acres shared
  13. 2006 Hancock Fire 21,866 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 7,746 acres shared
  14. 2007 King Creek #2 Fire 10,477 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 2,848 acres shared
  15. 2007 Elk Fire 1,145 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 1,116 acres shared
  16. 2008 Anthony Milne Fire 1,777 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 445 acres shared
  17. 2008 Haypress Fire 13,665 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 5,737 acres shared
  18. 2008 Panther Fire 44,497 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 34,131 acres shared
  19. 2014 Frying Pan Fire 133,177 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 4,534 acres shared
  20. 2017 Haypress Fire 21,318 acres in total · Cause: Lightning 884 acres shared

And 34 more fires that burned less of the same land. Acres are the land each fire shares with the Mccash 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