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From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 8 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).
A human-caused brush fire near San Jacinto stood at 650 acres Monday as firefighters had made significant progress in containing its growth overnight.
It began as a brush fire near the site where an earlier fire, called the Lachman Fire, had been located on Jan. 1, and it spiraled out of control as high winds hit the region.
It burned primarily in the San Jacinto Mountains in the San Bernardino National Forest. It started on July 15, 2013 at 1:43 PM near the junction of Highway 243 and Highway 74 . It burned for 16 days on steep slopes of timber and chaparral above Palm Springs .
Fire crews across the region have quickly worked to extinguish smaller brush fires while making progress on the deadly Palisades and Eaton fires. Blazes also began in San Diego County, including ...
The Manzanita Fire was a wildfire that burned south of the towns of Beaumont and Banning near Highway 79 in Riverside County, California during June 2017. The fire had consumed some 6,309 acres (2,553 ha) and was burning eastward towards the community of Poppet Flats and Highway 243. [2]
Multiple small brush fires erupted in San Diego County on Tuesday before fire crews quickly extinguished them. The 85-acre Lilac Fire was 90% contained as of Wednesday morning.
False-color view of the burned area and smoke from the Park Fire in Northern California, viewed from the Landsat 9 satellite on July 27, 2024. By the end of spring (June 20), the total area burned by wildfires in California was nearly 90,000 acres (36,000 ha).