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Palisades Fire. Size: 23,713 acres Containment: 19% County: Los Angeles Since its discovery on Jan 7th, the fire caused eight civilian fatalities, destroyed 2,191 structures, damaged 397, and ...
From January 7 to 31, 2025, a series of 17 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).
Additionally, as climate change made the wildfire season in California longer, it further overlapped with the season of Santa Ana winds (October-January). [10] Analysis from Climate Central and World Weather Attribution also found that climate change strongly increased the likelihood of the wildfires not by one, but by multiple ways. [11] [12]
In Wyoming, about 69% of properties could be at "major" risk of a wildfire in the next 30 years, and Colorado has the next highest figure, with 53% facing "major" risk.
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).
Palisades Fire. Size: 23,713 acres Containment: 21% County: Los Angeles Since its discovery on Jan 7th, the fire caused eight civilian fatalities, destroyed 2,747 structures, damaged 484, and ...
An interactive map of evacuation orders and warnings related to the Eaton Fire can be found on Cal Fire's website. The below map of evacuation zones was current as of 9:15 a.m. ET.
According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 7,127 wildfires burned a total of 324,917 acres (131,489 hectares) in the U.S. state of California in 2023. This was below the state's five-year average of 1,722,059 acres (696,893 ha) burned during the same period.