Montecito suffered a devastating mudslide in 2018. Now the community has rallied to try to make sure the same thing will ...

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Montecito suffered a devastating mudslide in 2018. Now the community has rallied to try to make sure the same thing will never happen again. Copyright 2025 BBC. All rights reserved.  The BBC is not ...

Santa Barbara County’s first significant rainfall after the Thomas Fire triggered mudslides and debris flows early Tuesday after the rain hit hillsides where brush had been reduced to ash.

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— The 2018 Montecito Mudslides, also known as the Montecito debris flow, will mark its 6th year anniversary on Tuesday. On the tragic day, 23 lives were lost and dozens more were injured.

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The 2018 mudslide led to more than $420 million in insurance claims. “At what point do you stop fighting against Mother Nature and start moving people to safer areas?” he asked.

In 2018, the deadly mudslides in Montecito occurred about a month after one of the largest fires in California's history tore through the same area, charring 280,000 acres (about 113,000 hectares).

The Thomas Fire began near Santa Barbara in December 2017 and burned over 280,000 acres. Then, on Jan. 9, 2018, extreme rainfall hit the region – including the burn scar left by the fire.

The entire town of Montecito, California, was told to evacuate as a storm battered the state Monday – the same day the community marked the five-year anniversary of a major mudslide that killed ...

According to a recent private study funded by the Project For Resilient Communities, a nonprofit that was launched after the 2018 mudslides, the southern region of Santa Barbara County has seen 56 ...