Lost Fire West of Bakersfield, California, Burns 7,834 Acres; Evacuations Lifted After Two Days
The Lost Fire broke out at 10:03 a.m. on June 18, 2026, four miles northwest of Lokern Road and Lost Hills Road, 35 miles west of Bakersfield in Kern County, California. CAL FIRE reported that the fire was under the unified command of the Kern County Fire Department and the Bureau of Land Management, and that its cause remained under investigation.
The fire grew rapidly that afternoon: 40 acres by 5:05 p.m., 70 acres by 5:40 p.m. with a dangerous rate of spread as it ran uphill aligned with terrain and wind, 400 acres by 6:31 p.m. and 682 acres by 7:30 p.m. Evacuation orders were issued that night and updated several times. By 12:59 a.m. on June 19, aerial intelligence measured the fire at 4,324 acres and 5 percent contained; by 1:41 p.m. that day it had grown to 7,500 acres and burned actively through the night.
By 12:37 a.m. on June 20 the fire stood at 7,834 acres and 27 percent contained, and all evacuations were lifted early that morning. By the afternoon of June 21 it was 72 percent contained as crews continued extinguishing hot spots. CAL FIRE's incident page reported no casualty figures for this fire.
Kern County had a separate fire of the same name, a 530-acre Lost Fire on April 24, 2026, which is a different incident from this one.
Source: CAL FIRE
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Photo: 图：消防员在山地灌木火场作业（资料照片：2016年同在加州克恩县的 Cedar Fire，非本次 Lost Fire 现场）。美国林务局（USDA Forest Service）摄，公共领域，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Firefighters working a mountain brush fire (file photo: the 2016 Cedar Fire, also in Kern County, California; not a scene of the Lost Fire). Photo by the USDA Forest Service, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
