Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyAn aerial view shows empty lots and new homes under construction in Pacific Palisades, California, on January 5, 2026. Thousands of homes were destroyed and at least 30 people were killed in the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire.Daniel Cole / ReutersA drone view during a foggy evening shows a newly rebuilt home in Pacific Palisades, nearly a year after wildfires raged through the neighborhood, on December 12, 2025.Josh Edelson / AFP / GettyLeft: A home completely engulfed in flames on January 8, 2025, during the Eaton Fire in Altadena. Right: The same property, now vacant, nearly one year later, on January 5, 2026.Mario Tama / GettyLeft: An aerial view of homes destroyed in the Palisades Fire on January 27, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. Right: The same view nearly one year later, on December 27, 2025, of homes being rebuilt amid cleared lots.Justin Sullivan / GettyLeft: Wind pushes embers into a home as the Eaton Fire moves through the area on January 8, 2025, in Altadena, California. Right: An empty foundation remains on December 18, 2025.Mario Tama / GettyLeft: An aerial view of trees and homes that burned in the Palisades Fire, seen on January 28, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. Right: The same view nearly a year later, showing surviving trees and cleared lots on December 22, 2025.Justin Sullivan / GettyLeft: A car burns as the Eaton Fire moves through the area on January 8, 2025, in Altadena, California. Right: A burn scar remains visible on the street in front of a property that was destroyed by the Eaton Fire nearly one year earlier, on December 18, 2025.Mario Tama / GettyLeft: A view of destroyed homes as the Palisades Fire continued to burn on January 10, 2025, in Pacific Palisades, California. Right: A view of cleared lots and vegetation regrowth near the Pacific Ocean nearly one year later, on December 27, 2025.Jonathan Alcorn / ZUMA Press Wire / ReutersA surfer enters the Pacific Ocean at Will Rogers State Beach in Los Angeles as runoff debris, including material from last January’s Palisades Fire burn area, washes into the surf following heavy rain from a powerful storm system on December 27, 2025.Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times / GettyFire debris remains at Pacific Palisades Bowl Mobile Estates in Pacific Palisades, California, on December 31, 2025, nearly a year after the Palisades Fire. The owners shared a plan with residents to clear the property of fire debris, and informed residents that they had until January 2 to remove any burned cars from the lots in preparation.Jae C. Hong / APEllaird Bailey and his wife, Charlotte, live inside their RV parked on their property after their home was burned by the Eaton Fire, on December 11, 2025, in Altadena, California.Jae C. Hong / APEllaird Bailey kisses the forehead of his wife, Charlotte, after Los Angeles County approved their rebuilding plans months after the Eaton Fire, as they visited a neighbor in Altadena, California, on December 11, 2025.Mario Tama / GettyAn aerial view of the construction of 16 new homes at a planned community amid cleared lots where homes were destroyed by the Eaton Fire, seen on January 5, 2026, in Altadena, CaliforniaMario Tama / GettyA member of a cleanup crew works in a home that survived the Eaton Fire but remains contaminated on December 23, 2025, in Altadena. Numerous homes that survived the flames remain contaminated by toxic ash and smoke damage and still require remediation.Mario Tama / GettyEaton Fire survivors Heather Sandoval Feng and her son Noah attend the “Horses and Healing: Finding Strength After the Fires” day retreat at the Healing Equine Ranch in Agoura Hills, California, on December 21, 2025. Their family had lived in their Altadena home, which was destroyed in the fire, since shortly before Noah was born. The special holiday event offered somatic and equine-assisted practices to support healing within the fire-survivor community with a small herd of rescued horses.Jae C. Hong / APA photo of sunflowers that Missi Dowd-Figueroa once grew on her property is projected onto her palms as she poses for a portrait at her rebuilding site in Altadena, California, on December 19, 2025, after the Eaton Fire destroyed her home.Mario Tama / GettyEaton Fire survivors ride on the “Rising Together” Rose Parade float ahead of the Rose Parade on January 1, 2026, in Pasadena, California. The float honored the 13,000 families whose homes were lost and the dozens who died in the 2025 L.A. wildfires.Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times / GettyAn aerial view of empty lots and homes under construction in the Palisades Fire zone, one year after the fires burned through, in Pacific Palisades, on January 6, 2026
