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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Mary Katherine Wildeman and Christopher L. Keller

Los Angeles fires have scorched largest urban area in California in at least 40 years

California Wildfires Urban Burns - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Two wildfires still burning in Los Angeles have torched more urban area than any other fire in the state since at least the mid-1980s, an Associated Press analysis shows.

The Eaton and Palisades fires that erupted last week have collectively burned almost 4 square miles of highly dense parts of Los Angeles, more than double the urban acreage consumed by the region's Woolsey Fire in 2018, according to the AP's analysis of data from the Silvis Lab at the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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