Southern California Wildfire Is Forcing Evacuation Orders For Thousands Only Months After January Blazes

Wildfires are common occurrences in the United States and Canada because of climate change, which is producing drier and hotter conditions each year. Only recently, the U.S. issued a travel advisory for Canada due to wildfires that have been burning there for weeks, which happened around a similar time as a large blaze erupted just outside of Downtown Las Vegas .

Now, however, Southern California is on fire yet again (following the massive wildfires that burned in Southern California earlier in January 2025 ), with a major blaze, named the Canyon Fire , sweeping across Los Angeles and Ventura counties and prompting evacuations and evacuation warnings in and near affected areas. While the latest updates state that around a quarter of the Canyon Fire is contained, firefighting effor