Esperanza Fire: October 26-27, 2006

Currently 75°F in Lake Elsinore, California, USA

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October 27, 2006, 9am: The morning after the Esperanza fire broke out, smoke floats over the lake. Smoke and ash reached all the way to the coast. Photo by Jinwu Ma.

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.