Mountain Fire

Wildfire in Ventura County, November 2024

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/8588/mountain-fire-2024

Key facts

Started November 6, 2024
Contained November 26, 2024, after 20 days
Burned 19,902 acres
8th largest fire of 2024
Cause Not recorded
Buildings 243 destroyed, 126 damaged
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Where it burned

County

  1. Ventura County 19,901 acres

Communities

  1. Camarillo 133 acres
  2. Santa Paula 9 acres
  3. Somis 4 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 243
  2. Major damage 25 to 50% damaged 13
  3. Minor damage 10 to 25% damaged 29
  4. Affected Up to 10% damaged 84

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. 1943 Jones Canyon Fire 522 acres shared
  2. 1946 Wiley Canyon Fire 21,266 acres in total 6,823 acres shared
  3. 1956 Bi Brush Fire 1,596 acres in total 1,264 acres shared
  4. 1958 Calumet Canyon Fire 17,214 acres in total 5,528 acres shared
  5. 1962 Culbert Fire 5,314 acres in total 4,324 acres shared
  6. 1967 Sence Ranch Fire 18,354 acres in total 14,881 acres shared
  7. 1970 Clampitt Fire 115,537 acres in total · Cause: Power lines 3,134 acres shared
  8. 1971 Sence Ranch Brush #2 Fire 2,819 acres in total 2,411 acres shared
  9. 1973 Sense Fire 984 acres in total 537 acres shared
  10. 1980 South Mountain Fire 2,395 acres in total 2,273 acres shared
  11. 1981 Loma Fire 376 acres in total 226 acres shared
  12. 1984 Grimes Fire 11,305 acres in total 7,591 acres shared
  13. 1986 Bradley Fire 9,229 acres in total 7,832 acres shared
  14. 1990 South Mountain Fire 735 acres in total 712 acres shared
  15. 1999 Bradley Incident Fire 3,332 acres in total 2,838 acres shared
  16. 2003 Simi Fire 107,570 acres in total 16,571 acres shared
  17. 2009 Guiberson Fire 17,527 acres in total 2,968 acres shared
  18. 2019 South Fire 130 acres shared
  19. 2019 Maria Fire 10,043 acres in total 8,580 acres shared
  20. 2023 South Fire 2,715 acres in total 1,837 acres shared

And 4 more fires that burned less of the same land. Acres are the land each fire shares with the Mountain 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