[generally]

https://buttecountyrecovers.org/360-images/

California fires.

Click the link. Then click on any of the red dots. (Zoom in if you want to choose a particular area.) Then scroll around.

What do you notice???????? Anything seem peculiar?

[Melian]

Re red dots/ CA fires:

All the red dots seem to follow roads?

[WildHighlander57]

generally wrote:

“
https://buttecountyrecovers.org/360-images/

California fires.

Click the link. Then click on any of the red dots. (Zoom in if you want to choose a particular area.) Then scroll around.

What do you notice???????? Anything seem peculiar?”

Houses are gone, but the big trees aren’t burned.

[numberonepal]

What do you notice???????? Anything seem peculiar?

No trees burned.

[Cats Pajamas]

Shades of Epstein Temple at the Superb Owl?

https://twitter.com/randybieberpr/status/1224196450353139712/photo/1

[TXnMA]

"What do you notice???????? Anything seem peculiar?"

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Obviously, only the lower trunks and branches of the big trees were burned.

Those were "UNDERSTORY fires

Proper maintenance of the woodlands (removing deadfall fuel & dense understory brush) would have saved the vast majority of those structures.

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We lived thru the family trauma of a house fire, and my heart really goes out those folks! Pray for them -- even now...

And there were many heroic battles fought: homes still intact, with burn right "up to the doors" -- but, outbuildings burned... Those were some courageous (and desperate) folks!!

Roads not only served as firebreaks, but where deliberate firebreaks were cleared, they were mostly effective.

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I live on a large timberland tract -- and I may wear my tractor "plumb out" -- but, I'm on an "Understory Clearance" program -- in expanding circles centered on my homestead! The "Bush Hog" and timber chain are getting a workout -- and the "Box Scraper" will be mounted soon (replacing the Bush Hog) to clear fire breaks...

(FWIW, anyone who sees (and understands) those photos won't give me a hard time about the fact that I maintain a 3-acre "lawn" surrounding our home...)

BTW, those drones & ArcGIS are great tools; I may have to get me a drone to scope out "danger paths" where trees need to be removed/thinned...

ThanQ for posting that resource!

TXnMA
  

[TXnMA]

(if you're a Google Earth user...)

To gain a real sense of the meaning of the term. "disaster" (and be inspired to count your own blessings) try this exercise:

1. Do a Google Earth search for, "Paradise, CA, USA" (Paradise was a lovely tree-shaded town of 26,000+ folks -- almost as big as my entire home county...)

2. Go to the latest overflight date (12/2018)

3. Zoom in on the "balloon" 'placemarker' for "Paradise"

4. Level off somewhere between 1,000 & 700 feet of "eye altitude" (indicated at the lower right)

5. Pan (scroll) slowly in any direction...

6. Try to count the destroyed homes & businesses...

7. Count your own blessings!

8. Pray for all those poor folks... (A family doesn't recover from something like that in a year or two -- even if they were "fully insured".)