Last week, we looked at what caused the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. In just one month, more than 57,500 acres burned in Southern California. The Eaton Fire and the Palisades Fire rank among the most destructive wildfires in California history. While the L.A. fires were extremely destructive, they were not the largest on record. Let’s...
Archive: 2026
The 2025 Los Angeles County wildfires started just over a year ago. We now know that the firestorm began on January 1, 2025, and the initial eight-acre brushfire was an act of arson. Fire crews believed that they had extinguished the brushfire, but hotspots remained. On January 7, 2025, the Santa Ana winds and dry...