Los Angeles fire maps show updating view of where Palisades, Eaton and more fires are burning right now
Wildfires continue to rage across Southern California, killing at least 10 people, destroying more than 10,000 structures and prompting evacuation orders for hundreds of thousands of residents who hurried to escape the flames engulfing swaths of Los Angeles. Maps of the region show where the Palisades Fire, Eaton Fire and several other blazes have scorched tens of thousands of acres — and thousands of buildings.
Updating map of Southern California fires
An updating map created by CBS News' data team charts the expanse of the wildfires across Southern California.
The Palisades Fire, a roaring blaze that has burned nearly 20,000 acres since it broke out Tuesday morning in the affluent Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, is currently the largest wildfire in the region. It grew out of a brush fire that exploded as powerful winds ripped through the area.
Firefighters are also battling the Eaton Fire, which trails the Palisades Fire in size and has consumed more than 13,600 acres in northern Los Angeles County. Like the Palisades Fire, it expanded dramatically Wednesday. Five people are dead because of this blaze, the Los Angeles County Fire Department told CBS News Los Angeles, and more have suffered significant injuries.
The Sunset Fire broke out Wednesday evening in the Runyon Canyon area of the Hollywood Hills, forcing a new set of evacuations. It had burned dozens of acres of vegetation, officials said.
Crews also continued fighting the Hurst and Lidia Fires, which were partly contained Thursday. The Woodley Fire, which began Wednesday inside a Los Angeles nature reserve, is now fully under control, fire officials said.
Where are the Los Angeles fire evacuation zones?
More than 200,000 residents of Los Angeles County have been ordered to evacuate as of Thursday afternoon, officials said, with the Palisades Fire alone accounting for a substantial portion of those evacuations. Altogether, the fires threaten at least 60,000 structures across the county.
Maps published by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, known as Cal Fire, delineate areas where evacuation orders and warnings are in place. Mandatory evacuation orders are shown in red and warnings are shown in yellow.
Vice President Kamala Harris' spokesperson confirmed that her family's Los Angeles home was included in one of the evacuation orders.
The Palisades and Eaton Fires have spurned the most substantial evacuations. Photos and video taken in both areas capture harrowing scenes of smoke billowing up into the sky and structures swallowed by flames.
The Hurst Fire, which originated in the Sylmar neighborhood of Los Angeles late Tuesday night, prompted additional evacuations by morning as it spread.
The Sunset Fire, which sparked Wednesday night, prompted evacuations in the Hollywood Hills area between Laurel Canyon Drive and Mulholland Boulevard near the popular hiking spot Runyon Canyon.
Cal Fire is continuing to update comprehensive lists of evacuation zones in the incident reports for each active wildfire on its website.
Where did the Los Angeles fires start?
The Palisades Fire initially erupted Tuesday morning near the Pacific Palisades, a partly coastal residential area in northwestern Los Angeles. It began as a brush fire that spiraled out of control because of ongoing high winds in the region.
Sheila Kelliher, a Los Angeles County Fire Department captain, told "CBS Mornings" Wednesday that fighting the wildfires is "incredibly challenging and volatile and unpredictable," calling the winds "ferocious" while imploring people in evacuation zones to heed officials' instructions and "get out when those warnings come."
"Pack up, get ready to go," Kelliher said. Referencing the pedestrians who abandoned their cars on roadways blocked by traffic when evacuations got underway, she added: "Sometimes, as you can see, the cars had to be left behind and a lot of times just even getting out on foot, you've got to get going."