Los Angeles Burning 2025 Los Angeles. At least 10 dead, thousands evacuated, and homes destroyed as los angeles wildfires rage in 2025. The oakland hills fire in 1991 burned just 1,600 acres — a much smaller footprint than the more than 25,000 acres that the palisades and eaton fires had burned around los angeles as of thursday.

As i write on friday morning, the four major fires that ring los angeles are still burning. The malibu coastline, nearly 40 kilometers long, has been largely destroyed by the los angeles palisades fire.