- At least five separate wildfires are ravaging Los Angeles and Southern California.
- The Palisades Fire alone has burned through over 17,000 acres of land in two days.
- For context, the entire island of Manhattan is 14,600 acres.
A series of wildfires have battered Los Angeles and other surrounding areas of Southern California since Tuesday, killing at least five people, burning through tends of thousands of acres of land, and destroying at least 1,000 structures.
The damage so far is estimated to be in the tens of billions of dollars.
When natural disasters strike, numbers like these — that reach the thousands, millions, and even billions — can become difficult to comprehend.
To put the wildfire destruction in California into perspective, here are seven statistics to help understand the damage they have inflicted.
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