2025 wildfires
Coverage of 2025 wildfires in the Nexus archive.
- Owner of Pasadena's Langham hotel to pay $320K to settle price gouging lawsuit
The owner of Pasadena's Langham Hotel will pay $320,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging price gouging following the 2025 wildfires. The settlement resolves claims of excessive pricing during the disaster.
- Toxic smoke from warehouse blaze even worse for LA than 2025 wildfires
Los Angeles is experiencing severe air quality due to toxic smoke from a Boyle Heights warehouse fire, with conditions worse than those during the 2025 wildfires.
- Nithya Raman edges out Spencer Pratt to face Karen Bass in LA mayoral runoff
Nithya Raman, a progressive Los Angeles city council member, advanced to the November mayoral runoff by defeating Spencer Pratt, a former reality TV villain. Pratt, who ran after his Pacific Palisades home burned down in the 2025 wildfires, initially led but was overtaken by Raman as ballots were processed.
- 2025 wildfires were the costliest ever, researchers say
2025 wildfires were the most economically damaging on record, despite the total area burned being relatively small, according to researchers.
- Trees that survived L.A.'s wildfires are dying at alarming rate. Can they be saved?
A preliminary survey found that 20% of street trees in Los Angeles that survived the 2025 wildfires have gone missing in the past year due to lack of watering and careless contractors. Local advocates are concerned about the high rate of tree death. The city is exploring ways to save the remaining trees.