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The flood was commemorated in Woody Guthrie's song "Los Angeles New Year's Flood". [8] To honor the victims of that New Year's calamity and to mark its 75th anniversary, a small monument was dedicated January 1, 2004, at Rosemont and Fairway avenues in Montrose, near where the American Legion Hall had stood.
Flood control structures spared parts of Los Angeles County from destruction, while Orange and Riverside Counties experienced more damage. [1] The flood of 1938 is considered a 50-year flood. [2] It caused $78 million of damage ($1.69 billion in 2023 dollars), [2] making it one of the costliest natural disasters in Los Angeles' history. [3]
Flood control structures spared parts of Los Angeles County from destruction, while Orange and Riverside Counties experienced more damage. [15] The flood of 1938 is considered a 50-year flood. [16] It caused $78 million of damage ($1.74 billion in 2024 dollars), [16] making it one of the costliest natural disasters in Los Angeles' history. [17]
Photos shows mudslides, floods after storm in Southern California Mud lies on a street, following a mudslide, in Malibu, Los Angeles, California, U.S., February 13, 2025.
Parts of Burbank and Sun Valley, previously affected by the La Tuna Fire in 2017, received four inches (100 mm) of rain and were evacuated ahead of potential mudslides. A debris flow into a residential area of Sun Valley damaged 40 to 45 homes and carried a vehicle that struck a natural gas pipeline, which began to leak. [37]
The highest rainfall total was 13.07 in (332 mm). Flash flooding swept away a mobile home in Angelus Oaks, killing a woman. The floods also washed away roads, damaged houses, and caused mudslides. [6] The region was drenched by record-breaking heavy rainfall and strong winds, flooding roads, and causing mudslides and rock slides. [70]
Great Flood of 1862; Los Angeles flood of 1938; 1939 California tropical storm; Christmas flood of 1964; 1997 California New Years Floods; 1997 Merced River flood; Los Angeles County flood of 2005; 2017 California floods; January 2018 Western United States floods; 2022–2023 California floods
One of the wettest storms in Southern California history unleashed at least 475 mudslides in the Los Angeles area after dumping more than half the amount of rainfall the city typically gets in a ...