The largest fires started on January 7 and devastated swathes of L.A., including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fires ...
That was the only individual fire that crossed the million-acre threshold, but more and more often, annual totals of acres burned have exceeded a million acres. Before 2008, California had never ...
high severity wildfires that spread rapidly.” Last summer was particularly hot in California and across the West, while there was very little rainfall: The BBC reported downtown Los Angeles has ...
The official cause of the fires has not been determined. The combination of drought-like conditions — Southern California has had less than 10% of average rainfall since Oct. 1 — and powerful ...
FRESNO, Calif. -- The wildfires burning in Southern California are bringing back some traumatic and difficult memories for wildfire survivors in Central California. Just last summer, wildfires ...
An extremely warm summer and fall ... the reasons behind the extreme dryness of vegetation in Southern California when the fires started, global warming likely contributed roughly one-fourth ...