Re: 85 - What direction was the fire traveling?
What ground cover was between the houses and tree line?
Were there any mitigation measures taken in the area between the houses and tree line?
Is there any ditching or other elevation differences between the houses and tree line?
What species of trees?
Are there images of the larger area?
You see, you need to ask questions. In EVERY fire that involves a woodland/urban interface there are going to be areas that are burned and areas that are not.
You ask a lot of good questions. Questions I don’t have the answers to. But others have spent days, months and even years explaining why the Paradise Fires left trees unscorched.
Was it DEW related or not? As I said - I have no input to give one way or the other.
I know in the case I do have personal knowledge about (the Bastrop fires) that oh yeah - Pine Trees burn. And boy did they. But as I was at the Bastrop State Park that hot dry windy day - I’ll tell you - it was not DEW related.
Paradise? Maui? I’ll leave others to make up their own mind.