Dinuba, California
23 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1922 and the latest in 1982. It stands in the Dinuba census division. It lies in ZIP code area 93618. The Survey maps it on the Reedley quadrangle. 24,563 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 335 feet above sea level.
Then and now
1922 to 1982The same ground, surveyed 60 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.


Population over time
3 figuresDinuba grew from 16,844 to 24,563 between 2000 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.
| Year | People | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 16,844 | |
| 2010 | 21,453 | +4,609 (+27%) |
| 2020 | 24,563 | +3,110 (+14%) |
Topographic sheets covering this place
14 surveys from 23 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1922 USGS Trimmer quadrangle1:96000
- 1924 USGS Dinuba quadrangle1:125000, 5 printings
- 1924 USGS Reedley quadrangle1:31680
- 1948 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1949 USGS Reedley quadrangle1:24000
- 1951 USGS Reedley quadrangle1:24000
- 1955 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1956 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1958 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1960 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1962 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1966 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:250000
- 1966 USGS Reedley quadrangle1:24000, 2 printings
- 1982 USGS Fresno quadrangle1:100000, 2 printings
Fires near this place
234 since 1992Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 234 fires within 5 miles of Dinuba between 1992 and 2020, burning about 560 acres in total. None started naturally. 44 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 84 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 49 |
| Arson/incendiarism | 44 |
| Debris and open burning | 34 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 13 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 5 |
| Smoking | 4 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 September 2006 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 8.0 acres | Tulare Unit | SULTANA |
| 9 September 1998 | Equipment and vehicle use | 1.0 acres | Tulare Unit | HUERTA |
| 8 September 2016 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection | S BUTTONWILLOW AV REEDLE |
| 7 September 1995 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Tulare Unit | JOST |
| 5 September 2010 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Fresno-Kings Unit | HUNT |
| 30 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | 15 acres | Fresno-Kings Unit | 12TH ST REEDLEY |
| 30 September 2005 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Tulare Unit | TULARE CO#86 |
| 29 September 2019 | Arson/incendiarism | under an acre | Tulare Unit | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Mines and quarries near this place
2 within 5 milesRegional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Dinuba: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Magnesite, Sand and Gravel, Construction. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Where | Site | Commodity | Status | Recorded |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Borrow Pit | Sand and Gravel, Construction | Past Producer | ||
| Dinuba Magnesite Co. | Magnesite | Past Producer |
Storms near this place
10 since 1998Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Dinuba in 10 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 5 flood, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, 1 lightning. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 1998 | Thunderstorm Wind | Dinuba | $50,000 | Knocking down trees into powerlines, thunderstorm wind left 3100 customers without power in areas of Northwest Tulare County, including the Dinuba area. |
| August 2007 | Lightning | Dinuba | $17,000 | Strong thunderstorms and lightning brought a tree down on South Santa Fe Street in Visalia and caused power outages in Visalia and Dinuba. A sidewalk and wrought-iron fence were damaged in Visalia. |
| March 2023 | Flood | Dinuba | $1,000 | California Highway Patrol reported a tree on all lanes of Rd. 96. |
| January 2023 | Flood | Dinuba | - | Public report of a telephone pole leaning towards the roadway east of the railroad tracks at the intersection of Ave 424 and Rd. 72. |
| February 2023 | Heavy Rain | Dinuba | - | Public report in Dinuba of measured rainfall of 3.26 inches of rainfall on February 24 and the morning of February 25. |
| November 2019 | Funnel Cloud | Dinuba | - | Fresno Television Station reported a funnel cloud over Dinuba. |
| February 2014 | Flood | Dinuba | - | Small hail, frequent cloud to ground lightning, wind gusts to 50 mph, and flooded roads along Road 80 just south of Dinuba. This weather was caused by a cluster of thunderstorms moving through the area. |
| April 2012 | Flood | Dinuba | - | The California Highway Patrol reported flooding on Road 80 at Avenue 392. |
| October 2004 | Tornado (F0) | Dinuba | - | A rope shaped tornado was relatively stationary even as the parent cell moved northeast. The tornado was short-lived as reported by a spotter and did not have an extensive ground track. No damage was seen in the rural area at the time nor noted by a subsequent NWS survey. |
| February 1998 | Flood | Dinuba | - | About 6 commercial buildings were threatened by high water due to locally heavy rains in downtown Dinuba. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
| Map | Place | Distance | Sheets |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enson | 1.3 miles | 23 | |
| Tokay | 1.6 miles | 22 | |
| North Dinuba | 1.7 miles | 23 | |
| Smyrna (historical) | 2.2 miles | 22 | |
| Sultana | 2.5 miles | 22 | |
| Ivory | 2.6 miles | 23 | |
| Delft Colony | 3.8 miles | 23 | |
| Monson | 4.4 miles | 19 |
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Dinuba | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q986906 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1658422. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.













