A 2022 report from the nonprofit First Street Foundation identified over 9,000 Palisadian properties — 99% of all properties in the neighborhood — as being at risk for wildfire damage
Conditions are turning ripe for wildfires across Southern California, posing a serious threat to the rugged topography of Pacific Palisades in the coming days.
The National Weather Service warned that Los Angeles and Ventura counties are at “major risk” of wildfires this week as gusts of the Santa Ana winds reach up to 80 mph through an area that, despite being in the midst of the wet season, hasn’t seen significant rain for months. Since May, Southern California hasn’t recorded more than one-tenth of an inch of rain, putting the region into moderate drought conditions. The NWS stated that blazes this week “may grow rapidly in size with extreme fire behavior.”…