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L.A. wildfire news and resources

Woods-affiliated scholars are available to provide insights on a number of issues related to the 2025 Los Angeles-area wildfires. See recent reporting below, and visit wildfire.stanford.edu for additional resources and help reaching Stanford experts.

Los Angeles Wildfire News Coverage

The Unfightable Fire

Regarding the LA wildfires, Michael Wara says that "firefighting is not going to be effective in the context we saw a few days ago. You could put a fire truck in every driveway and it would not matter." 

The Atlantic

While drafting a 2021 report for the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, Wara said “existing homes in high fire threat areas” built before the implementation of California’s wildfire building codes “are a massive problem.” When it was published, around 700,000 to 1.3 million pre-building code homes were standing in “high or very high threat areas.”

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