Before 2008, California had never seen more than a million acres burn in one year, but that year there were over 1.4 million acres burned. Since then, there have been four other million-acre-plus years, with the largest in 2020, when a whopping 4.3 million acres burned.

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,