With dry vegetation on the ground and the winds making ... “It’s going to be a nightmare that we can barely imagine right now.” While LA burns, political disputes and criticism have ...

A perfect storm of climate extremes set the stage for devastating wildfires in Los Angeles in early 2025. After two ...

With dry vegetation on the ground and the winds making ... “It’s going to be a nightmare that we can barely imagine right now.” While LA burns, political disputes and criticism have ...

Also Wednesday, the county launched a website called The LA County Relief: Funding & Resource Portal, a one-stop site to connect the public with local recovery and support resources. The site can ...

The Los Angeles (LA) wildfires began with with the Palisades fire, which erupted the morning of Jan. 7 in Pacific Palisades ...

Climate change set the stage for LA wildfires by reducing rainfall, parching vegetation, and extending the overlap in drought ...

Hotter, drier conditions and increasing “weather whiplash” made the local vegetation much more flammable. “Is there a link between climate change and the broadly increasing risk/severity of ...

"This vegetation is extremely dry,” said LA County Fire public information officer Fred Fielding. “We've had two years of above average rainfall (2023 and 2024)... so you've got a lot of these ...