With thousands of Los Angeles homeowners seeking refuge from the wrath of wildfires, the fallout from the destruction could include higher rent prices across the city, where more than half of residents are renters.

At least five people have been killed and thousands of structures have burned in wildfires raging in the Los Angeles area

Apocalyptic scenes have been left behind in the Los Angeles area as fires continue to decimate neighborhoods—and many people from the Chicago area are among those directly affected. The fires have scorched more than 45 square miles of the Los Angeles area—leaving total devastation behind.

The confirmed death toll from three days of raging wildfires rose to 10 people late Thursday as firefighters struggled to contain blazes that have destroyed swaths of America’s most populated county.At least five infernos were burning simultaneously around Los Angeles,