About 8,700 firefighters have been battling the fast-moving blazes for five days from the San Diego area up the Pacific Coast to Santa Barbara County.
The fires have destroyed 500 buildings and kill at least an elderly driver who inhaled smoke and crashed along an evacuation route in Santa Paula on Sunday.
The biggest blaze, known as Thomas Fire, has charred 143,000 acres in Ventura County, which is located northwest of Los Angeles.
The interactive map below shows that three other major fires have also broken out around Los Angeles, which America’s second biggest city.
These are days that break your heart,” Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti declared. “These are also days that show the resilience of our city.”
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Skirball Fire forced celebrities to flee their homes in the affluent Bel Air neighbourhood where Rupert Murdoch’s vineyard was affected by flames.
In the San Fernando Valley north of Los Angeles, the Creek Fire destroyed at least 30 homes, blackened more than 12,000 acres and forced the evacuation of 2,500 homes.
Another wildfire erupted in Murrieta, Riverside County, on Thursday afternoon. It burned 300 acres in Riverside County but thankfully did not spread overnight.
North of San Diego, the Lilac Fire swelled from 10 acres to 4,100 acres in a few hours on Thursday, prompting a state of emergency for San Diego County. The fire destroyed 105 structures.
Fallbrook, known for its avocado orchards, burned, and homes were destroyed in its Rancho Monserate Country Club retirement community. Blazes approached the Camp Pendleton marine base.
A 500-stall stable for thoroughbred race horses at San Luis Rey Downs training site burned late on Thursday, the Los Angeles Times reported
The strengthening winds “potentially put the fires that are currently burning at risk of spreading,” said Lynne Tolmachoff, spokeswoman for California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
“Firefighters have been taking advantage of the past 24 hours to try to get containment lines and strengthen them so that does not happen.”