The home of Vice President Kamala Harris in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles has been placed under an evacuation order by local authorities, making her one among tens of thousands of Californians whose homes have been threatened by wildfires raging through parts of Los Angeles County.

The devastating fires ripping through Los Angeles are fueled by unusual weather conditions that the National Weather Service called “about as bad as it gets in terms of fire weather.” And driving that worst-case scenario is a rapidly warming planet,