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Following months without rain, wildfire-ravaged Southern California has once again entered a concerning period of severe drought, new data showed.. Drought conditions - coupled with hurricane ...
Rising temperatures and prolonged droughts have extended fire seasons by nearly three months since the 1970s, leaving California in a near-constant state of fire risk. Millions of drought- and ...
In California, the authors found that wildfires spread almost four times as fast in 2020 as in 2001. The state has had dozens of fires in the first nine days of 2025, and a storied history of ...
The 2020 season became the largest in the state's recorded history in terms of area burned, with more than 4 million acres burned across the state in 9,917 wildfires. [24] Out of six of the biggest fires ever recorded in the state of California, five took place in 2020. [25]
Many millions of California trees died from the drought – approximately 102 million, including 62 million in 2016 alone. [32] By the end of 2016, 30% of California had emerged from the drought, mainly in the northern half of the state, while 40% of the state remained in the extreme or exceptional drought levels. [33]
Wildfire smoke from the Southern California wildfires seen over Santa Monica State Beach, January 8, 2025 Winds blew wildfire smoke across Los Angeles, leading to several "very unhealthy" air quality index readings of over 200, with the PM2.5 of the Harrison ES station reaching 184.1 µg/m 3 , or 36.8 times the annual World Health Organization ...
Violent fires will remain possible until the extreme weather pendulum swings back to wet and California gets a soaking winter rain. Climate change is making when that will happen even harder to ...
As of March 22, 2022, the National Drought Mitigation Center's U.S. Drought Monitor saw the entire state in moderate to extreme drought conditions. [23] In February, their Drought Severity and Coverage (DSCI) index, which measures cumulative dryness, was at 275, or nearly twice the 20-year average of approximately 146, according to the San ...