Before 2008, California had never seen more than a million acres burn in one year, but that year there were over 1.4 million acres burned. Since then, there have been four other million-acre-plus years, with the largest in 2020, when a whopping 4.3 million acres burned.

As multiple fires rage in LA County, this is how some previous California wildfires have contributed to homelessness and housing shortages.

The L.A. wildfires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.

The Los Angeles fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.