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Pacific Palisades, CA Jan. 15, 2025
Photo By Sgt. 1st Class Jon Soucy - https://www.flickr.com/photos/thenationalguard/54272193113
π₯ Palisades Fire by the Numbers
π₯ Palisades Fire by the Numbers
π Dates: January 7 β January 31, 2025 (24 days)
π Location: Los Angeles County, CA.
π² Burned Area: 23,448 acres
π¨ Evacuated Residents: 105,000
π Structures Destroyed: 6,837 (1,017 damaged)
β οΈ Deaths / Injuries: 12 deaths β’ 4+ non-fatal injuries
π° Estimated Damage: $25 billion (2025 USD)
π₯ Cause: under investigation - man charged as of Oct 2025Β
π₯ Did You Know?
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A study by researchers from Boston University and the University of Helsinki found that the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfires may have caused over 440 deaths - more than 14 times the official count reported by California authorities.
Using excess-mortality modeling previously applied during COVID-19, the team detected a 7% spike in deaths between Jan 5 and Feb 1, 2025. The Palisades Fire and Eaton Fire, which together burned 50,000 acres and destroyed nearly 16,000 homes and businesses, were the primary drivers of this surge - revealing a much broader human cost than fire statistics alone convey.
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Source: Journal of the American Medical Association (Vol. 334, No. 11) β https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837351
Damage Proxy Map - Woolsey Fire of Nov, 2018
Created by Advanced Rapid Imaging and Analysis (ARIA) team
@ NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia22816-nasas-aria-maps-california-fire-damage/
π₯ Woolsey Fire by the Numbers
π₯ Woolsey Fire by the Numbers
π Dates: November 8 β November 21, 2018 Β (13 days)
π Location: Los Angeles and Ventura Counties, CAΒ
π² Burned Area: 96,949 acresΒ
π¨ Evacuated Residents: 300,000
π Structures Destroyed: 1,643 (364 damaged)
β οΈ Deaths / Injuries: 3 deaths β’ 5+ non-fatal injuries
π° Estimated Damage: $6 billion (2018 USD)
π₯ Cause: Faulty Southern California Edison equipmentΒ
π₯ Did You Know?
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The Woolsey Fire burned 96,949 acres - about 151 square miles (392 kmΒ²) - in Los Angeles County and Ventura County of California.
Thatβs:
ποΈ Larger than the entire city of Las Vegas, Nevada
π Nearly twice the size of San Francisco, California
ποΈ About 2.5 times the size of Washington, D.C.
π¨ Nearly 300,000 residents were ordered to evacuate - one of the largest wildfire evacuations in California history.
Thatβs roughly equal to the population of:
π Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - The Steel City
ποΈ Anaheim, CaliforniaΒ - home of Disneyland
π Orlando, Florida - home of Disney World
Entire communities across Malibu, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, and Thousand Oaks were displaced as flames moved rapidly toward the coast.
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Source: CAL FIRE, Los Angeles County Office of Emergency Management, 2018 Woolsey Fire Incident ReportΒ
This chart reminds us whatβs at stake. Together, we can make sure no new fires are ever destructive enough to replace any of the fires listed here again.
This chart reminds us whatβs at stake. Together, we can make sure no new fires are ever destructive enough to replace any of the fires listed here again.
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