Ballard Fire initially started 3:21 p.m. July 5 in Santa Barbara County, California. It has been burning on private land for ...

Evacuation orders were issued near Highway 166. The highway is closed from U.S. 101 near Santa Maria to Perkins Road in the ...

Santa Barbara County firefighters have stopped the forward progress of a one acre fire near Ballard on July 5, 2025.

A large contingent of firefighters quickly doused a vegetation fire in the Ballard Canyon area of the Santa Ynez Valley on ...

A vegetation fire started in Santa Ynez Valley at about 3:18 pm, according to the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. Santa ...

A new wildfire was reported today at 3:21 p.m. in Santa Barbara County, California. Ballard Fire has been burning on private ...

Back in the mid-1990s, Steve Beckmen was the first vintner in Santa Barbara County to tune deeply into biodynamic farming. He spread the practice to both his family’s Los Olivos District estate — ...

Readiness For many years, a wildland solution has been plotted by local fire departments, all of which have an engrained experience with wildfire in Santa Barbara. Firefighters, helicopter pilots, ...

The Lake fire in Santa Barbara County, California’s largest so far this year, has grown to 37,742 acres, but firefighters have worked to contain the blaze around the Santa Ynez and Los Olivos ...

The largest blaze of the California wildfire season, the Lake Fire in Santa Barbara County, grew to over 38,000 acres by Friday, fueled by gusty winds and extreme temperatures, authorities said.

The wildfire tearing through rural Santa Barbara County about 12 miles northeast of the town of Los Olivos grew more than 2.5 times in size Saturday, growing from just under 5,000 acres to 12,227 ...

Santa Barbara County Fire Department The Plant Fire reached 5,460 acres on Sunday, as 430 personnel were on scene, on August 20, 2023. Scott Safechuck ...