VerifiedUnited States7 January 2025
The Los Angeles wildfires, January 2025
Wind driven fires destroyed whole neighbourhoods of Los Angeles after months without rain, killing at least 27 people.
- Named wildfire
- Named drought
The timeline
The same case studies as the map, on a time axis instead of a place one. Geography is normally read by where something happened, so this is the second view rather than the first: it is here for when the question is when.
35 case studies, 2010 to 2026. 21 carry no date and sit outside the run of it
When the case studies are
2025
Clear the year- VerifiedUnited Kingdom24 January 2025
Storm Eowyn, UK and Ireland, 2025
An explosively deepening Atlantic storm broke Ireland's wind record and left more than a million without power across Ireland and Scotland.
- UK extreme weather
- VerifiedMyanmar28 March 2025
The 2025 Sagaing earthquake, Myanmar
A magnitude 7.7 strike-slip earthquake on the Sagaing Fault devastated central Myanmar during a civil war.
- Named earthquake
- Tectonic hazard, LIC