The death toll from the ravaging wildfire in the US state of California has risen to 31, making it the deadliest in the state’s history.

As more than 8,000 firefighters battled three large wildfires burning across nearly 400 square miles in Northern and Southern California over the weekend, two more people were found dead after flames tore through Malibu mansions.

The two severely burned bodies were discovered in a driveway in Malibu where some of the prominent residents forced from their homes included Lady Gaga, Kim Kardashian West and Martin Sheen.

At least five search teams are currently working in Paradise, a town of 27,000 inhabitants which has 90 percent of its homes totally razed. was largely incinerated.

Firefighting officials said they expected the wind to die down by midday on Monday but there was still no rain in sight. This is even as people looking for friends or relatives called evacuation centres, hospitals, police and the coroner’s office. More than 200 persons from around the state are yet to be accounted for.

The flames also besieged Thousand Oaks, the Southern California city which is still in mourning over the massacre of 12 people in a shooting at a country music bar on Wednesday night.