By the end of 2019, according to Cal Fire and the US Forest Service, 7,860 wildfires were recorded across the U.S. state of California, totaling an estimated of 259,823 acres (105,147 hectares) of burned land.

[4] The 2019 California fire season was less active than that of the two previous years (2017 and 2018), which set records for acreage, destructiveness, and deaths.

[7] Fire behavioral experts and climatologists warned that heavy rains from months early in the year had produced an excess of vegetation that would become an abundance of dry fuel later in the year as the fire season gets underway.

This assessment was written on the basis of noting that the state has recently been seeing consistently destructive fires more often than ever before.

[83] A small brush fire ignited in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles County on October 21.