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The Border 2 Fire was discovered around 2:30 p.m. PT in the Otay Mountain Wilderness Area about 30 miles southeast of the city and just north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Despite many smaller brush fires igniting on Otay Mountain throughout the years following the Harris Fire of October 2007, which burned a significant portion of the Otay Mountain Wilderness, much of the area had not seen significant fire activity since, leading to a glut of overgrown native chaparral in the area which allowed the current fire to burn aggressively.
Population growth in metros with people in areas of high wildfire risk increased by roughly 70% between 1990 and 2020 whereas the population in the average American metro area increased by about 40%.
Shortly thereafter fire was reported some distance further to the North in the park behind a residential area known as Mynatt Park. Throughout the afternoon and evening of November 28, numerous fires developed in the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge areas as a result of wind-driven sparks or downed power lines.
In Wyoming, about 69% of properties could be at "major" risk of a wildfire in the next 30 years, and Colorado has the next highest figure, with 53% facing "major" risk.
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).
Most of the area burned by the Mountain fire was in sparsely populated areas, but when high winds helped the blaze leap across Highway 118, it began threatening a suburban neighborhood in the ...
The name "Otay" comes from the Kumeyaay word otai, which means "brushy". [3]On March 16, 1991, a Hawker Siddeley HS-125 airplane carrying seven members of singer Reba McEntire's band, plus her business manager and two pilots, crashed into the side of the mountain after taking off from nearby Brown Field Municipal Airport, killing all ten on board.