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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).
Name County Acres Start date Containment date [a] Notes Ref. Palisades: Los Angeles: 23,448: January 7: January 31: Evacuations forced; destroyed 6,837 structures and damaged 1,017 in Pacific Palisades and Malibu, northwest of Santa Monica; twelve confirmed fatalities and four confirmed injuries; third-most destructive wildfire in California history; associated with extremely powerful Santa ...
California: Los Angeles: 10,425: January 22: January 30: 2025 California wildfires-Burned near Castaic Lake. Evacuations forced; associated with extremely powerful Santa Ana wind event that begun on January 22. [11] Border 2: California: San Diego: 6,625: January 23: January 30: 2025 California wildfires-Vegetation fire burning in the Otay ...
Laguna Fire Map Other wildfires in California. Cal Fire is also tracking the following fires: Palisades Fire- Los Angeles County, 23,448 acres, 70% contained. Eaton Fire- Los Angeles County ...
PHOTO: Firefighters operate as smoke and flames rise from the Sunset Fire in the hills overlooking the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on Jan. 8, 2025. (David Swanson/Reuters)
US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump speak with officials as they tour a fire-affected area in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 24, 2025 ...
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 ...
The fires have killed at least 27 people as of Friday and destroyed more than 10,000 structures in the residential enclaves of Pacific Palisades and Altadena. "I will be (going), probably, at the ...