Concow is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in the Sierra Nevada foothills in Butte County, California, United States. Due to a decline in employment and repeated wildfires, over the past hundred years the population declined from several thousand to several dozen. On November 8, 2018, a wildfire, the Camp Fire, destroyed most of Concow, as well as the adjacent municipality of Paradise. As of the 2020 census, Concow had a population of 402.