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Mapping the Current Los Angeles Wildfires
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As of Jan. 10, 2025, several major wildfires continue to ravage the Los Angeles area, claiming the lives of at least 11 people and destroying over 10,000 properties.
This map visualizes the current wildfires in the Los Angeles area, as of Jan. 10, 2025.
Data comes from the National Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE, accessed on Jan. 10, 2025.
Current Los Angeles Wildfires, as of Jan. 10, 2025
Below, we show the active wildfires in the Los Angeles area as of Jan. 10, 2025, the total number of acres they have burned, and their current containment levels.
| Fire | Acres burned (as of Jan. 10, 2025) | Containment (as of Jan. 10, 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Palisades | 21,317 | 8% |
| Eaton | 13,690 | 3% |
| Kenneth | 1,000 | 35% |
| Hurst | 771 | 37% |
| Lidia | 395 | 75% |
As of Jan. 10, 2025, the wildfires have burned over 35,000 acres of land, an area more than twice the size of Manhattan, and forced 180,000 people from their homes since Tuesday.
Experts have cited climate change as a key contributor to the intensity of these disastrous fires.
Intense drought, a dry winter, and strong Santa Ana winds whose gusts have exceeded 100 mph created the ideal conditions for the fires to spread rapidly in the Los Angeles area.
Additionally, South California’s rapid cycling between very dry and very wet conditions—an increasingly common phenomenon that scientists call a “weather whiplash“—has produced vast amounts of dry vegetation that serves as highly combustible wildfire fuel.
The Situation on the Ground
On Thursday, Los Angeles City Fire Chief Kristin Crowley said the Palisades fire is “one of the most destructive natural disasters in the history of Los Angeles.”
At one point, the Palisades Fire was spreading at a pace of five football fields per minute.
The Pacific Palisades is home to some of the country’s most expensive real estate and celebrity residences, including those of Paris Hilton and Adam Sandler. Numerous high-profile celebrities have lost their homes to the fire.
The Sunset Fire, now contained, erupted in the Hollywood Hills Wednesday evening, threatening iconic Los Angeles landmarks like the Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood Walk of Fame, TCL Chinese Theatre, and Hollywood Bowl.
According to estimates published by J.P. Morgan, the insured losses from these fires may exceed $20 billion, the costliest in U.S. history.
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