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How much rain Southern California could see this weekend. Saturday 25 January 2025 17:30, Kelly Rissman. A storm is expected to relieve the wildfire-ravaged region this weekend.
Just across the California-Nevada border in the Washoe Valley south of Reno, the Davis fire has damaged an additional 14 structures as firefighters are struggling to contain its progress.
The biggest fires in Los Angeles County, the Palisades and Eaton fires, have burned over an area more than 37,000 acres in size as of Jan. 16. At least 27 people have died, according to the LA ...
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.
9,907 wildfires burned at least 601,625 acres (2,434.69 km 2) of land in the state of California during 2013. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The wildfires injured at least 125 people and killed at least 1. They also caused over $218.15 million (2013 USD) in damage. [ 2 ]
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 fires destroyed over 10,000 structures [1] and cost over $12.079 billion (2020 USD) in damages, including over $10 billion in property damage and $2.079 billion in fire suppression costs. [ 3 ] [ 2 ] The intensity of the fire season has been attributed to a combination of more than a century of poor forest management [ 7 ] [ 8 ] and higher ...
Yet there was a catch: The cost of his property coverage, including for fire, was going to double to about $16,000 a year. What’s more, liquor and liability policies were going to cost him a few ...