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This isn’t the first time Mt. Wilson has been threatened by fire, most notably by the Station fire in 2009, which burned more than 160,000 acres in the Angeles National Forest.
UPDATED at 1 p.m.: A tweet was just posted on the account for the Angeles National Forest saying the raging Bobcat Fire is within 500 feet of the historic Mt. Wilson Observatory. Yesterday, a ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Border 2 Fire in California, as of January 24, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are under evacuation warnings ...
By 1901, The Mount Wilson Toll Road Co. had purchased Henninger Flats, Strain's Camp, Martin's Camp, and 640 acres (2.6 km 2) of the summit. [7] In 1903, George Ellery Hale visited Mt. Wilson and was impressed by the perfect conditions for which to set up the observatory, which would become the Mount Wilson Solar Observatory in 1904.
Mount Wilson is the highest summit of the San Miguel Mountains range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The prominent 14,254.1-foot (4,345 m) fourteener is located in the Lizard Head Wilderness of San Juan National Forest , 10.6 miles (17.1 km) north by east ( bearing 12°) of the Town of Rico in Dolores County , Colorado , United States .
Walt Disney Co.'s KABC-TV Channel 7 station, which uses communications towers near Mt. Wilson, lost its over-the-air signal Friday as the Eaton fire continued its rampage through mountainous terrain.
FEMA's index calculates wildfire risk based on a community's expected annual fire losses, assigning ratings from very low to very high. A "very high" risk area means it has significantly higher ...
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).