15 Pics Show How a Devastating Wildfire Gave Birth to a Super Bloom of Wildflowers

It’s been quite the winter for Southern California. The region was hit hard by devastating fires followed by polar vortexes and record-breaking rainfall.

Besides filling dams and reservoirs, the rainfall also led to explosions of colorful wildflowers when the conditions were right.

The conditions in Simpson Park in Riverside County were perfect this season, but it didn’t seem that way a short while ago.

The Fairview Fire devastated this area only six months earlier.

The first was so fierce, it burned away all vegetation, leaving only the charred skeletal branches of a few hardy plants.

But the rains came, and the wildflowers were free to explode across the barren landscape.

It’s an amazing story of rebirth after a deadly fire.

The famed California poppies were everywhere.

But it felt like nearly every color of the rainbow was proudly represented.

Keep scrolling to see how these wildflowers have brought color and life back to the hills of Simpson Park in Southern California.