Fast-moving Santa Ana winds – some as powerful as a hurricane – have been roaring across Southern California and feeding the wildfires firefighters are battling in the Los Angeles area.

Many of the raging fires started Tuesday, fueled by strong ‘Santa Ana’ winds that were of the ... the city’s fire department and MySafe:LA. Structures here refer to houses and other buildings.

Powerful Santa Ana winds, near hurricane strength at times, swept down the mountains outside Los Angeles and pushed wildfires into several neighborhoods starting Jan. 7, 2025. Well over 1,000 ...

A Santa Ana winds forecast map by AccuWeather ... Strong, locally damaging, NE/E winds will affect West LA Co. & much of Ventura Co thru Wednesday. Critical fire weather is expected, so PLEASE ...

new blazes sparking with return of dangerous 75 mph Santa Ana winds Trump anticipates rising death toll in LA wildfires: ‘We’re gonna find many bodies and many more, many more dead’ Recall ...

Powerful Santa Ana winds are sweeping across Southern California in a windstorm that triggered red flag warnings for Los Angeles County and created what firefighters called some of the most ...

The ferocious Santa Ana winds that helped fuel the deadly, out-of-control wildfires around Los Angeles are forecast to ease later Wednesday, but they may return Friday, meteorologists said.

What are the Santa Ana winds? Santa Ana winds are hot, dry winds that blow in from the northeast. They pick up speed as they hit the mountains around LA, and send humidity levels plunging ...

This is a developing story. For the latest local updates head to LAist.com and sign up for breaking news alerts. The intense and fast-moving fires that have cut a path of destruction through the ...

Helping drive the wildfires in the US city of Los Angeles are the so-called Santa Ana winds, a weather phenomenon known to dry out "the hills and the nerves to flash point." The windstorms occur ...

The fire threat remains critical in and around Los Angeles as Santa Ana winds are expected to increase ... have lighter winds compared with then LA braces for dangerously high winds which could ...

Santa Ana winds can bring disruptive impacts to daily life in Los Angeles and parts of southern California, but when coupled with wildfires they can escalate the situation rapidly, causing the ...