Months before the ongoing wildfires raged through Southern California, American podcaster Joe Rogan made an eerie prediction about the same thing. On a July 2024 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, Rogan discussed the threat of wildfires with comedian Sam Morrill. In the podcast, he recalled a conversation with a firefighter who predicted a catastrophic scenario for the area.
“One day, the right wind will blow and a fire will start in the right place and burn Los Angeles all the way to the ocean,” Logan said firefighters told him.
In the clip, Logan, wearing a Los Angeles Fire Department T-shirt, explained how firefighters emphasized the terrifying scale and speed of the wildfires. “These fires are very large, and you’re probably talking about thousands of acres burning at the same time as 40 mph winds. Once that happens, it spreads so widely. , there’s nothing they can do,” Logan said.
California wildfires were perfectly predicted with insane accuracy by firefighters who spoke to Joe Rogan pic.twitter.com/zuM8gmvJRX
— Ryan ???? (@scubaryan_) January 9, 2025
According to the New York Post, Joe Rogan has frequently reiterated his concerns about Los Angeles’ vulnerability to wildfires on various episodes of his podcast.
In 2018, while still living in Bell Canyon, Ventura County, Rogan hosted British mentalist Derren Brown on the Joe Rogan Experience. Wildfires were already raging in the area, and Brown said at the beginning of the interview that he was lucky to arrive safely despite the ongoing fires. Logan responded by recounting the same warning from firefighters, explaining how “right winds” could push fires from the city all the way to the ocean.
A year later, in 2019, Rogan brought up the topic again in a conversation with journalist David Wallace Wells. During a discussion about climate change, he mentioned predictions that wildfires in California could be “64 times worse by the end of this century.”
Logan’s warning has resurfaced as wildfires, particularly the Palisades Fire in the west and the Eaton Fire in the east, continue to rage, forcing mass evacuations and destroying homes across Los Angeles County.
The wildfires have claimed at least 10 lives, CNN reported. But authorities have warned that the true scale of casualties may not be known until investigators are safely in the affected neighborhoods. The fires have forced tens of thousands of people to evacuate their homes, and evacuation orders continue to affect much of the region.
