Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
L.A. fire maps show Palisades, Eaton and more fires in California right now Emily Mae Czachor, John Kelly, Taylor Johnston, Grace Manthey Updated January 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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).
Santa Ana winds in California expand fires and spread smoke over hundreds of miles, as in this October 2007 satellite image. The Rim Fire consumed more than 250,000 acres (100,000 ha) of forest near Yosemite National Park, in 2013. This is a partial and incomplete list of wildfires in the US state of California. California has dry, windy, and ...
Another fire is ablaze in Southern California, igniting Thursday near San Diego, continuing weeks of blazes in Southern California. The Border 2 Fire was discovered around 2:30 p.m. PT in the Otay ...
Dozens of active fires. Close to 14,000 firefighters deployed. And California still has four months of its wildfire season in front of it.
By July 29, more than 726,000 acres (294,000 ha) had burned across the state. [7] Fire activity decreased during August, but a long period of extreme heat across the Western United States during early September allowed numerous wildfires across the state to grow rapidly, such as the Line Fire, the Bridge Fire, and the Airport Fire in Southern ...
An aircraft flies to drop fire retardant over the area of a wildfire burning near Pacific Palisades on the west side of Los Angeles during a weather driven windstorm on Jan. 7, 2025. California ...
There is currently an ongoing series of wildfires in the U.S. state of California. A series of fires in Southern California, specifically in the Greater Los Angeles area, have caused at least 28 deaths, thousands of destroyed structures, evacuations and widespread power outages in January 2025.