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Where wildfires are burning in Texas right now. Tracking the fires: Texas fires map: Track wildfires as Smokehouse Creek blaze engulfs 500,000 acres.
Here are where the fires are burning and where mandatory evacuation orders are in place for Friday: Active California wildfires: ... and currently threatens more than 12,000 more structures, ...
Here is a breakdown of where each fire is located, when it started and its current status. Palisades fire. Started: Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. southeast of Palisades Drive. Size: 15,832 acres ...
A map of evacuation orders and warnings for the Sunset Fire in California, as of about 4:50 a.m. PT on Thursday, Jan. 9, 2025. Areas in red are under evacuation orders and areas in yellow are ...
False-color view of the burned area and smoke from the Park Fire in Northern California, viewed from the Landsat 9 satellite on July 27, 2024. By the end of spring (June 20), the total area burned by wildfires in California was nearly 90,000 acres (36,000 ha).
The Palisades Fire has destroyed over 23,000 homes and is the most destructive wildfire in the area, USA TODAY's previously reported. The fire spread toward the north, prompting more evacuations.
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California have grown more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
Wildfire smoke from the Southern California wildfires seen over Santa Monica State Beach, January 8, 2025 Winds blew wildfire smoke across Los Angeles, leading to several "very unhealthy" air quality index readings of over 200, with the PM2.5 of the Harrison ES station reaching 184.1 µg/m 3 , or 36.8 times the annual World Health Organization ...