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Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
These low humidities, combined with the warm, compressionally-heated air mass, plus the high wind speeds, create critical fire weather conditions. The combination of wind, heat, and dryness accompanying the Santa Ana winds turns the chaparral into explosive fuel feeding the infamous wildfires for which the region is known.
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 7 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).
Here is a breakdown of where each fire is located, when it started and its current status. Palisades fire. Started: Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. southeast of Palisades Drive. Size: 15,832 acres ...
The Eaton Fire is currently at 87% contained with 14,021 acres impacted, according to Cal Fire. "Very dry conditions remain [across Southern California], combined with the expected winds, the ...
Those strong winds and dry conditions are likely continue to fuel the historic wildfires raging in Southern California. PHOTO: An ABC News graphic shows the extreme fire risk in Southern ...
The timing of fire season in Southern California is similar, peaking between late spring and fall. The severity and duration of peak activity in either part of the state is modulated in part by weather events: downslope/offshore wind events can lead to critical fire weather, while onshore flow and Pacific weather systems can bring conditions ...
Fresh evacuations were ordered along the eastern flank of the massive Palisades Fire late Friday night in Mandeville Canyon to the Interstate 405 freeway as a reverse in the wind direction pushed ...