{"id":324228,"date":"2026-05-20T07:17:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324228\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T07:17:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T07:17:29","slug":"map-californias-biggest-wildfire-of-the-year-burning-in-the-channel-islands-press-telegram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324228\/","title":{"rendered":"Map: California\u2019s biggest wildfire of the year burning in the Channel Islands \u2013 Press Telegram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California\u2019s largest wildfire of the year is burning on Santa Rosa Island, part of Channel Islands National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The fire, which was reported on the morning of Friday, May 15, had burned 10,029 acres (15 square miles) as of Sunday evening, <a href=\"https:\/\/inciweb.wildfire.gov\/incident-information\/cacnp-santa-rosa-island-fire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">federal wildfire officials said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The island has been closed to visitors, and all non-fire staff were evacuated on Sunday, the National Park Service said.<\/p>\n<p>High winds on Sunday hampered efforts to bring more firefighters to the island, about 30 miles off the coast near Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Rosa Island Fire is more than twice the size of California\u2019s second-biggest 2026 fire, which burned 4,176 acres last month in Riverside County. There have been seven fires this year bigger than 1,000 acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California\u2019s largest wildfire of the year is burning on Santa Rosa Island, part of Channel Islands National Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,8,138,643,131,133,132,100,136,535],"class_list":["post-324228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-environment","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-wildfires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}