Edgar McGregor

Altadena Meteorologist

Edgar McGregor, 24, is a meteorologist in Altadena, CA, whose Facebook page “Altadena Weather and Climate” is credited with saving hundreds of lives during the Eaton Fire of January 2025. He regularly posted hyperlocal weather forecasts for thousands of followers and neighbors in the San Gabriel Mountains Foothill communities of Los Angeles. Beginning on December 30, 2024, he repeatedly warned about "extraordinarily high fire weather conditions" across Southern California during the January 7, 2025 Santa Ana windstorm, preparing his community for what ultimately would become one of the largest urban fire conflagrations in US history.

He has conducted daily trash pickups at his local hiking trails for over 2,000 days, pulling tens of thousands of pounds of litter out of the environment in the process.