A map of California is both beautiful and confounding — a giant sock-shaped space somehow stuffed with both mountains and beach, palm trees and eucalyptus, snow and sun, avocados and almonds ...

Wildfires continue to rage through Los Angeles leaving at least 24 dead and destroying more than 12,000 structures.

See maps of where evacuation orders and warnings are in place for three wildfires burning in the Los Angeles area.