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The Border 2 Fire was a wildfire that burned in the Otay Mountain area of San Diego County, two miles north of the U.S.–Mexico border. It is part of the January 2025 Southern California wildfires .
The Border 2 Fire started at around 2:30 pm PST on January 23 and proceeded to burn 600 acres atop Otay Mountain through much of the afternoon at "dangerous rate" of spread. [145] Throughout its first night, it displayed extreme fire behavior as it exploded to several thousand acres due to the wind and inaccessible terrain. [146]
The Border 2 fire is one of two fires that started near San Diego on Thursday as the Gillman Fire forced residents of La Jolla to evacuate for a few hours. The fire's forward progress was stopped ...
The Border 2 Fire near San Diego is the only fire currently less than 50% contained. The fire began in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area about 30 miles southeast of the city and just north of the ...
Border 2 Fire: 6,625 acres with 43% containment. Rain aids firefighters battling blazes in Southern California. With help from the rain, containment has increased for the Palisades and Eaton fires ...
The timing of fire season in Southern California is similar, peaking between late spring and fall. The severity and duration of peak activity in either part of the state is modulated in part by weather events: downslope/offshore wind events can lead to critical fire weather, while onshore flow and Pacific weather systems can bring conditions ...
The Border 2 Fire doubled in acreage Thursday evening –– spreading across 300 acres to 600 acres in about an hour. There are currently no threats to civilians, ...
The blaze—dubbed the Border 32 Fire due to it being the thirty-second fire of significance for the year of 2022 in close proximity to the United States-Mexican border—sparked at 2:15 PM PDT off Barrett Lake Road and state Route 94 in the Barrett Junction area just southeast of Dulzura and was initially pegged at 30 acres in size but with a dangerous-to-critical rate of spread as it moved ...