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Editor's note: This file captures the news of the California wildfires from Tuesday, Jan. 14. For the latest updates on the LA fires, follow USA TODAY's live coverage for Wednesday, Jan. 15 ...
Editor's note: This file captures the news of the California wildfires from Wednesday, Jan. 22. For the latest updates on the fires, follow USA TODAY's coverage for Thursday, Jan. 23.. A fast ...
How to help firefighters. The LA Fire Department Foundation's Wildfire Emergency Fund supports the local firefighters battling the fires. The fund is being used to finance emergency fire shelters ...
California land area totals 99,813,760 or roughly 100 million acres, so since 2000, the area that burned annually has ranged between 90,000 acres, or 0.09%, and 1,590,000 acres, or 1.59% of the total land of California. [3] During the 2020 wildfire season alone, over 8,100 fires contributed to the burning of nearly 4.5 million acres of land.
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).
A firefighter stands on top of a fire truck to battle the Palisades Fire while it burns homes on the Pacific Coast Highway amid a powerful windstorm on January 8, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
Fires burn tens of thousands of acres in Los Angeles area. The Palisades Fire started burning around 10:30 a.m. local time on Tuesday and has scorched more than 17,000 acres between Santa Monica ...
A firefighter walks up a hill as the Bridge Fire burns near homes in Wrightwood, California, on Tuesday. - Jae C. Hong/AP • Bridge Fire in Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties: A fire inside ...