- Wildfires have broken out in Los Angeles and are raging through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
- Mark Hamill was among the thousands who evacuated, while other stars, like Paris Hilton and Billy Crystal, have lost their homes.
- The average house price in the northern LA area is $4.5 million, per Realtor.com data.
Wildfires in Los Angeles are tearing through the Pacific Palisades neighborhood, home to A-list actors, including Ben Affleck — who bought his $20.5 million mansion there in July.
Other celebrities, including Tom Hanks, Reese Witherspoon, Michael Keaton, Adam Sandler, Miles Teller, and Eugene Levy, also live in the neighborhood.
The area, located between Santa Monica and Malibu in northern Los Angeles, is home to some of the country’s most expensive real estate. The average house price is $4.5 million, according to Realtor.com data.
The fire started on Tuesday in the Pacific Palisades before spreading west toward the Malibu stretch of the Pacific Coast Highway. On Wednesday, the city of Malibu issued a statement on X advising residents to prepare to evacuate.
Among the at least 130,000 LA residents asked to evacuate their homes because of the fire was the “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill. He said on Instagram that he had left his Malibu home on Tuesday with his wife, Marilou, and their dog, Trixie. He described it as the “most horrific fire since ’93.”
“Evacuated Malibu so last-minute there were small fires on both sides of the road as we approached PCH,” he wrote.