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Evacuations for California’s largest wildfire of 2025

California’s largest wildfire of year explodes in size as hot weather raises risk statewide

The Madre Fire became California’s largest blaze so far this year, ripping through grasslands after breaking out Wednesday in southeastern San Luis Obispo County

USA TODAY on MSN · 4h

Madre Fire explodes in size, becoming California's largest wildfire this year

The Madre Fire is the largest wildfire in California in 2025 — surpassing the Los Angeles-area fires that devastated parts of the region in January.

Newsweek on MSN · 7h

Madre Fire Map: California Wildfire Engulfed 35,000 Acres in 24 Hours

At the outset of the blaze, the San Luis Obispo Sheriff's Office estimated that some 500 acres were already burned at the scene, near the 10000 block of Highway 166 in the Los Padres National Forest. They warned the fire was spreading "rapidly."

Fears of new round of wildfires in California after the traumatic Los Angeles blazes in January

The Madre Fire broke out yesterday in San Luis Obispo, a rural county in the US state.

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California battles its biggest wildfire of the year

More than 300 firefighters are battling a massive blaze in California, a state which is dreading summer wildfires. The fire broke out yesterday in a rural ...

Fox Weather on MSN2d

Wildfires erupt in California as drought conditions expand

Firefighters in the Golden State are working to control dozens of blazes, with several large fires erupting in Riverside and ...

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Wildfires Create Major Obstacle for California Housing Goals

Welcome to Bloomberg’s California Edition—covering all the events shaping one of the world’s biggest economies and its global ...

Wildfires traumatize us all. Here’s how to cope

In an instant anyone living in or near an active fire zone can experience evacuations, displacement, loss of property, loss ...

California’s former insurance commissioner wants oil and gas companies to pay for the home insurance crisis

As destructive wildfires have ravaged California over the past decade, the insurance industry has dropped hundreds of ...

ABC News1d

California's largest blaze this year explodes in size as hot weather raises wildfire risk statewide

Dozens of smaller wildfires were burning across the state. Southern California's Wolf Fire reached 55% containment Thursday after charring more than 3.7 square miles (9.5 square kilometers) of dry ...

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