An aerial view of the sun rising beyond homes which burned in the Eaton Fire on January 21, 2025 in Altadena, California.

Video captured from an airplane shows the smoke and flames from the Hughes Fire near Los Angeles, California. The Hughes Fire, about 50 miles (80 km) north of Los Angeles, broke out on Wednesday (Jan ...

From the air, the once-thriving Los Angeles neighborhoods wiped out by recent wildfires now appear as block after block of grayish-brown ash and rubble. Sunlight reflects off the skeletal remains of ...

While the insurance cost of the devastation is estimated to be around $30 billion, another tally puts the total damage at upward of $250 billion.