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A wildfire in southwestern North Carolina was the largest active fire in the state, having spread more than 600 acres in Polk County near the South Carolina border, according to the forest service.
The acreage burned still paled in comparison to the hundreds of thousands of acres burned in the largest wildfires in the state's history, but that fact was offset by the real estate prices in the ...
Seven fires are still raging across Southern California and have consumed more than 57,000 acres LA wildfires live: Residents face new threats of mudslides and ‘toxic ash’ as rain hits ...
Wildfires are burning across Los Angeles County. Hundreds of thousands of people are under evacuation orders or warnings. Insured losses could top $20 billion, JPMorgan analysts estimated — the ...
An update from the LA County Sheriff's Department shortly before 8:30 p.m. local time said the most intense fire activity was occurring on the southwestern side of the fire.
It was learned that suppression of fire in certain ecosystems may in fact increase the likelihood that a wildfire will occur and may increase the intensity of those wildfires. With the emergence of fire ecology as a science also came an effort to apply fire to ecosystems in a controlled manner; however, suppression is still the main tactic when ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 14 destructive wildfires affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and San Diego County in California, United States. [5] The fires were exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a buildup of vegetation from the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s).
The latest Los Angeles County wildfire, dubbed the Hughes Fire, began as a brush fire Wednesday a little before 11 a.m. before spreading to over 8,000 acres by around 4 p.m. local time.