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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 complex fire burned a total of 393,624 acres (159,294 ha) from August 16 to October 1, 2020, making it the fifth-largest overall wildfire recorded in California's modern history, surpassed only by the 2018 Mendocino Complex Fire, the 2021 Dixie Fire, the 2024 Park Fire, [3] and the 2020 August Complex fire. [4]
The Sunset Fire broke out the evening of Jan. 8 in the Runyon Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills, forcing a new set of evacuations. It had burned dozens of acres of vegetation, officials said ...
As of 7:46 p.m., the fire had burned 14,148 acres and was not contained, according to the latest incident update released by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, or Cal Fire.
An update from the LA County Sheriff's Department shortly before 8:30 p.m. local time said the most intense fire activity was occurring on the southwestern side of the fire.
The Eaton Fire was a highly-destructive wildfire in Los Angeles County, Southern California.The fire began on the evening of January 7, 2025, in the Eaton Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains, and was driven by powerful Santa Ana winds into foothill communities, particularly Altadena.
The 14,000-acre Eaton Fire, which devastated parts of the Altadena community north of Pasadena, was about 95% contained, Cal Fire said Thursday morning. The Eaton Fire has killed at least 17 ...
The South Canyon Fire was a 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 wildland firefighters on Storm King Mountain, near Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1994. It is often also referred to as the "Storm King" fire. It was the subject of John Maclean's book Fire on the Mountain: The True Story of the South Canyon Fire.