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The largest of the blazes, the Palisades Fire, is more than 37 square miles. That’s more than half the land size of Washington, D.C. A second fire, the Eaton Fire, is now more than 22 square miles.
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 are growing 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 ...
The Getty Villa art museum is threatened by the flames of the wind-driven Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades, California, Jan. 7, 2025. A fast-moving brushfire in a Los Angeles suburb burned ...
On January 10, an evacuation warning was mistakenly issued for the entirety of Los Angeles County rather than an area specific to the Kenneth fire and was subsequently sent out to cellphones across the county as a wireless emergency alert message to nearly 10 million LA-area residents; [139] [140] County Supervisor Janice Hahn later confirmed ...
Multiple fires raging across the Los Angeles area will cost insurers as much as $30 billion, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs estimated in a report released this week. The ongoing fires, according to ...
It is the fifth-largest fire complex in California history. [84] [85] Holser Ventura: 3,000: August 17: September 6: Unknown cause [86] Butte/Tehama/Glenn Lightning Complex (Butte Zone) Butte: 19,609: August 17: October 17: Lightning sparked 34 fires throughout Butte County; 14 structures destroyed; 1 structure damaged; 1 injury [87] [88] North ...
Major fires in the Los Angeles area have leveled entire communities.. Satellite images show flames wreaking havoc on houses, businesses, and other structures. At least 10 people have died, and the ...
According to statistics published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), a total of 7,127 wildfires burned a total of 324,917 acres (131,489 hectares) in the U.S. state of California in 2023. This was below the state's five-year average of 1,722,059 acres (696,893 ha) burned during the same period.