The January wildfires that ripped through Los Angeles didn’t just leave behind blackened hillsides — they scorched some of the region’s most costly homes.

A new report from Redfin reveals the staggering scale of the financial toll, especially in affluent neighborhoods like the Pacific Palisades, where the typical home destroyed by the fires was worth $3.7 million.

In total, roughly 11,000 homes were damaged across the city, resulting in an estimated $51.7 billion in property losses, according to Redfin’s analysis of data from the Los Angeles City Council. Nearly 100 of the homes affected were previously valued at $20 million or more. 7

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Many of those ultra-high-end properties were located in the Palisades, a celebrity-favored coastal enclave west of downtown. The so-called Palisa

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