In other parts of California burned by past wildfires, communities are still dealing with the fallout years later.

Los Angeles County was already one of the nation's most expensive areas to live before wildfires began raging on Jan. 7. Now the fires, three of which had not been contained as of Monday, are likely to further strain a tight housing market,

The annual L.A. area homeless count will be postponed due to the ongoing wildfires crisis, the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority announced Friday. It had been scheduled to take place Jan. 21-23.

The Los Angeles fires expose California’s difficult road to navigate between disaster risk and solving the state’s housing crisis.