US EditionFewer than a dozen homes have been rebuilt a year after being burned down in LA-area wildfires
Fewer than a dozen homes rebuilt; insurance disputes, labor shortages, and infrastructure delays stall recovery for thousands in Los Angeles County wildfire zones.
- At the one-year milestone, wildfires on Jan. 8, 2025, destroyed over 16,000 structures, and fewer than 1,000 buildings, including about 900 homes, are under construction.
- The fires' cross-jurisdictional spread forced survivors to navigate varied city and county rules, while disaster recovery experts and the Blue Ribbon Commission on Climate Action and Fire Safe Recovery urged a single rebuild authority amid survivors citing inadequate FEMA response and funding cuts.
- L.A. County's planning director Amy Bodek cautioned that insurance delays slow permits, warning `If you're waiting on an insurance payment to make the payment to your architect you're not going to have a permit in review yet`.
- So far, few homes have been rebuilt as fewer than a dozen have been completed in Los Angeles County since Jan. 7, 2025, while scores of residents have left and some RV residents rebuilding on-site remain.
- Research finds 10,000 Altadena homeowners with severe damage had not started rebuilding last year, with Black homeowners 73% more likely to take no action, raising inequality concerns, said UCLA's Latino Policy & Politics Institute.
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California’s congressional delegation renews call for federal aid on anniversary of wildfires
On the one-year anniversary of the Southern California wildfires, elected officials from Los Angeles County and across the state renewed their calls for additional federal disaster aid to help communities impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires continue to recover. U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff, along with every U.S. House representative from California, sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Wednesday, Jan. 7, urging him to requ…
Photos show the Pacific Palisades one year after the Los Angeles wildfires, from empty lots to rebuilt storefronts
Palisades, CA - January 06: An aerial view of empty lots and homes under construction in the Palisades fire zone on the one year anniversary in Pacific Palisades Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026.Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times via Getty ImagesThe Palisades and Eaton fires began in Southern California on January 7, 2025.They destroyed over 16,000 structures and burned 38,000 acres.One year later, photos show the remaining devastation as rebuilding work c…
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