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In 2025 the Los Angeles wildfires burned more than 16,000 homes and other buildings. And about 6,300 cars.

An outlier yes, but many of the wildfires do burn a significant number of structures, that's the main reason firefighters engage with them. The purely chaparral fires (which may be allowed to burn) are more distant from most pregnant women so even though the smoke blows over it's less concentrated.