Esperanza Fire: October 26-27, 2006

Currently 93°F in Lake Elsinore, California, USA

Thursday, March 19, 2026 11:45 AM PDT

October 26, 2006, 4pm: Taken from a rooftop at Stetson and Girard streets. The setting sun forces its way through the pall of smoke from the Esperanza fire as ash falls lightly all around. Photo by Mike Wilson.

The Lake Elsinore, California weather pages are a service of WeatherCurrents. Lake Elsinore is located south of Corona and north of the Temecula Valley, in southwestern Riverside County, California.