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Several landmarks have sustained damage or are in imminent danger. Many beloved L.A. locales have been spared. ... A ferocious wildfire in a Los Angeles suburb devoured buildings and sparked ...
The department’s National Interagency Fire Center, which released the maps, points out that much of the U.S. received below normal precipitation in January and that drought had increased ...
A wildfire, forest fire, or a bushfire is an unplanned, uncontrolled and unpredictable fire in an area of combustible vegetation. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Depending on the type of vegetation present, a wildfire may be more specifically identified as a bushfire ( in Australia ), desert fire, grass fire, hill fire, peat fire, prairie fire, vegetation fire, or ...
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).
The bottom line of the National Fire Danger Rating System in the day-to-day operation of a fire prevention and suppression program is the staffing class. The staffing class is sometimes referred to as the action class, adjective class, precaution class, preparedness class, or the Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL).
A firefighter works as the Hughes Fire burns on January 22, 2025, in Castaic, California, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.
A banner indicating a red flag warning, flown at a CAL Fire station in 2022. A red flag warning is a forecast warning issued by the National Weather Service (NWS) in the United States to inform the public, firefighters, and land management agencies that conditions are ideal for wildfire combustion, and rapid spread. [1]
On Wednesday, the highest fire danger is forecast for the southern Plains, including Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas. Dangerous fire conditions are also being seen in parts of New Mexico, where ...