There have been 4,991 fires in California since January, ... and 2011, when about 5.8 million acres had been consumed by flame over that time period. ...

The 2018 Camp Fire ranks as the most destructive and deadliest wildfire in California history. Located in the state's northern Butte County, the Camp Fire burned over 150,000 acres.

The devastating wildfires tearing across California, Oregon, Washington and several other Western states are an increasingly familiar scene, as blazes have become larger and more destructive over ...

At more than 14,000 acres, the Eaton fire is the second-largest wildfire burning in Southern California. It is 95 percent contained. The blaze is also burning in Los Angeles County.

The aftermath of the Eaton fire in Altadena, Calif., in January. The peak of California’s fire season, when fires are most abundant and the most acres burn, occurs from June through October.

Since 1993, seven of the 10 worst fire years in California, ranked by total acres burned, have occurred after drier-than-normal winters. By contrast, ...

Here’s what we know about the fires. Where are the fires? The Palisades Fire erupted the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades, a Los Angeles neighborhood east of Malibu, as a brush fire. The ...

The Palisades Fire, which had burned through more than 19,000 acres in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood in Los Angeles County, was 6% contained as of Thursday night, according to the California ...

In 2020, when dry lightning sparked an outbreak of wildfires across Northern California, more than 4.3 million acres burned, but in 2022 and 2023, only about 300,000 acres burned each year.