Airport Fire

Wildfire in Orange and Riverside counties, September 2024

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/8575/airport-fire-2024

Key facts

Started September 9, 2024
Contained October 6, 2024, after 27 days
Burned 23,526 acres
7th largest fire of 2024
Cause Equipment use
Buildings 160 destroyed, 34 damaged
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Where it burned

Counties

  1. Orange County 21,281 acres
  2. Riverside County 2,239 acres

Communities

  1. Lakeland Village 677 acres
  2. Trabuco Canyon 219 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.

Buildings damaged

  1. Destroyed Over 50% damaged 160
  2. Major damage 25 to 50% damaged 8
  3. Minor damage 10 to 25% damaged 13
  4. Affected Up to 10% damaged 13

Buildings CAL FIRE inspected after the fire, by how badly each was damaged. Inspectors record homes, businesses and outbuildings within 100 meters of the fire, and cannot always reach every one, so the counts can differ slightly from other reports.

The same land, other fires

Burned before

  1. 1920 Unnamed fire 2,724 acres in total 1,257 acres shared
  2. 1921 Unnamed fire 412 acres in total 362 acres shared
  3. 1922 Unnamed fire 151 acres shared
  4. 1923 Unnamed fire 2,150 acres in total 1,797 acres shared
  5. 1925 Unnamed fire 8,650 acres in total 4,267 acres shared
  6. 1926 Unnamed fire 9,935 acres in total 62 acres shared
  7. 1954 Jameson Fire 7,881 acres in total 3,183 acres shared
  8. 1958 Steward Fire 68,106 acres in total 6,717 acres shared
  9. 1959 Decker Fire 1,485 acres in total 357 acres shared
  10. 1980 Indian Fire 28,940 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 14,122 acres shared
  11. 1987 Riverside Fire 330 acres in total · Cause: Playing with fire 251 acres shared
  12. 1987 Silverado Fire 7,693 acres in total · Cause: Arson 364 acres shared
  13. 1989 Ortega Fire 7,752 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 1,437 acres shared
  14. 1993 Ortega Fire 21,012 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 500 acres shared
  15. 2002 Holy Fire Cause: Campfire 74 acres shared
  16. 2007 Santiago Fire 28,430 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 64 acres shared
  17. 2016 Holy Fire Cause: Miscellaneous 146 acres shared
  18. 2017 Canyon Fire 47 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 42 acres shared
  19. 2018 Holy Fire 23,025 acres in total · Cause: Miscellaneous 3,751 acres shared
  20. 2022 Jim Fire 553 acres in total 207 acres shared

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