A wildfire that started Wednesday evening has prompted evacuation warnings in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Fresno.
The Hog Fire was reported around 7:30 p.m. April 22, and by 7 a.m. was 200 acres, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. The Fresno County sheriff’s office issued an evacuation warning for an area on the north shore of Pine Flat Lake, and a section of Trimmer Springs Road was closed.
The area is several miles west of the footprint of the Garnet Fire, which burned about 60,000 acres last summer.
California’s wildfire season is off to a slow start this year. In 2025, six fires of more than 1,000 acres had been recorded by April, including the devastating Palisades and Eaton fires in the Los Angeles area. So far this year, there have been three over 1,000 acres, the largest of them this month’s 4,100-acre Springs Fire in Riverside County, CalFire says.
Updates on the Hog Fire can be found at Fresno County’s emergency website.