A new wildfire was reported today at 8:29 p.m. in Los Angeles County. The wildfire has been burning on private land. There is no update on the containment of the fire and its cause remains unknown.

We’re tracking the fires in Los Angeles, California. See maps of recently burned areas and key locations in the vicinity of the fire.

The massive Palisades Fire broke out in Los Angeles on Tuesday afternoon, prompting mandatory evacuations affecting tens of thousands of people and highway closures. Later Tuesday, the Eaton Fire broke out in the foothills of Pasadena on the other side of Los Angeles County.

Thousands of people have been forced to flee after "unprecedented" Palisades, Eaton and Hurst fires ravage Los Angeles County.

Wildfire weather conditions across portions of Southern California will largely remain critically elevated through Thursday and possibly Friday as well, according to the National Weather Service.

A rapidly growing wildfire raged across an upscale section of Los Angeles on Tuesday, destroying homes and creating traffic jams as 30,000 people evacuated beneath huge plumes of smoke that covered much of the metropolitan area.

The main factors influencing the Palisades fires are high winds and lack of rain. The Santa Ana winds are dry, strong easterlies which occur naturally around this time of year, blowing from the interior of southern California towards the coast.