In early January, the soil moisture in much of Southern California was in the bottom 2% of historical records for that day in the region. That’s extremely low.

Dry conditions across Southern California set the stage for a series of deadly wind-driven wildfires that burned thousands of homes and other structures in the Los Angeles area in early January 2025.

Normal fire season is in late summer and fall because of the heat of the summer and dry vegetation. This is also when the Santa Ana winds pick up. Santa Ana winds can dry out grasses in a matter of minutes to a few hours.

Hydroclimate whiplash -- the rapid shift between wet and dry conditions -- likely contributed to the severity of the wildfires in Southern California, experts say.

Parts of Santa Monica were ordered to be evacuated as fast-moving flames destroyed homes along the coast in Los Angeles. Winds were picking up overnight, potentially fueling the fires.

As flames scorch thousands of acres in Southern California, destroying homes and decimating communities, some from the show-me-state are on the ground in Califo

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School administrators called the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office on Monday, Jan. 13, after a 15-year-old girl told them an unknown man was inside the girls locker room at Newbury Park High School in Thousand Oaks, deputies said in a Jan. 15 news release. While he was there, she said he “committed a lewd act” in front of her, deputies said.

a professor of civil engineering at the University of Southern California who has studied how urban fires exacerbate post-fire related hazards, told ABC News. The further away from wildland ...

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The state is seeing a sharp water divide this year, with lots of rain in the north while the south has stayed dry. A hydrologist explains what’s happening.