Since January 7, 2025, a series of 30 wildfires have affected the Los Angeles metropolitan area and surrounding regions. As of January 18, 2025, the Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire remain, both being the largest of the 30.
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January 2025 Southern California wildfires
Part of the 2025 California wildfires
GOES-18 satellite image of the Palisades, Lidia, and Eaton fires, January 7, 21:51 UTC
- Date(s) : January 7, 2025 – present
- Location : Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura counties, California
- Statistics : BURNED AREA
Roughly 40,588 acres (16,425 ha; 63 sq mi; 164 km2)
- Impacts : DEATHS
27+ direct[1][2]
1 indirect[3]
Non-fatal injuries
22+
Missing people
31+[4][5]
- Evacuated
205,000
- Structures destroyed
12,401+ destroyed or damaged
- Ignition : CAUSE
Under investigation, exacerbated by severe Santa Ana winds and drought conditions
- Map
LIST OF AFFECTED PLACES
1. Palisades Fire
The Palisades Fire viewed from the shoreline, January 82. Easton Fire
3. Hurst Fire
4. Kenneth Fire
Perimeter of Kenneth FireThe fires have been exacerbated by drought conditions, low humidity, a build-up of vegetation the previous winter, and hurricane-force Santa Ana winds, which in some places have reached 100 miles per hour (160 km/h; 45 m/s). As of January 16, 2025, the wildfires have killed at least 27 people, forced over 200,000 to evacuate, and destroyed or damaged more than 12,401 structures.
Most of the damage has been done by the two largest fires: the Palisades Fire in Pacific Palisades and the Eaton Fire in Altadena. They are likely the fourth and second most destructive fires in California's history, respectively.