Editing Santa Barbara, California (section)

====Notable wildfires====
Since the middle of the twentieth century, several destructive fires have affected Santa Barbara: the 1964 Coyote Fire, which burned {{convert|67000|acre|km2}} of backcountry along with 106 homes; the smaller, but quickly moving, Sycamore Fire in 1977, which burned 200 homes; the disastrous 1990 [[Painted Cave Fire]], which incinerated over 500 homes in only several hours, during an intense [[Sundowner (wind)|Sundowner wind]] event; the November 2008 [[Montecito Tea Fire|Tea Fire]], which destroyed 210 homes in the foothills of Santa Barbara and [[Montecito, California|Montecito]]; and the 2009 [[Jesusita Fire]] that burned {{convert|8733|acre|km2}} and destroyed 160 homes above the [[#Neighborhoods|San Roque]] region of Santa Barbara.<ref name=city1>{{cite web|url=http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/00BDE41C-79A6-4862-8D02-89E16FCB01CB/0/0611_Get_Ready_Santa_Barbara.pdf|title=City of Santa Barbara: Historical Santa Barbara Area Fires|website=Santabarbaraca.gov|date=June 2011|access-date=July 31, 2012|archive-date=July 24, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120724101956/http://www.santabarbaraca.gov/NR/rdonlyres/00BDE41C-79A6-4862-8D02-89E16FCB01CB/0/0611_Get_Ready_Santa_Barbara.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=county1>{{cite web |url=http://www.sbcfire.com/au/dphist/history.htm |title=History of the Santa Barbara County Fire Department |access-date=July 31, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120720065051/http://www.sbcfire.com/au/dphist/history.htm |archive-date=July 20, 2012 }}</ref>

The [[Thomas Fire]] burned from its origins in [[Santa Paula, California|Santa Paula]] {{convert|60| miles|-1}} to the east of Santa Barbara and consumed {{convert|281,893|acre|km2}} in Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, most of which consisted of rural land and wilderness areas. The fire started December 4, 2017, and was 100% contained by January 12, 2018. 1,050 structures were lost in the Thomas Fire, mostly east of Santa Barbara in Ventura County. The Thomas Fire has been the largest Santa Barbara County fire ever recorded to date.