Paradise Lost - The Camp Fire (2018)
Description
On November 8th, 2018, a faulty PG&E transmission line ignited the Camp Fire, which spread out of the Feather River Canyon and into the town of Paradise. Within hours it had become the deadliest U.S. wildfire in a century, killing 85 people, burning 153,336 acres, as well as 18,804 buildings. Virtually the entire city of Paradise was destroyed. Insured losses exceeded $9 billion, and the scale of destruction pushed PG&E into bankruptcy and a $13.5 billion victim-compensation deal after pleading guilty to 84 counts of involuntary manslaughter. This tragedy forced the state of California to adopt its current aggressive wildfire prevention policy. - Source
Sources/Info
Imagery: Sentinel-2 L2A SWIR Imagery, taken 11/16/2018, accessed via
Copernicus Browser,
Paradise city limits via
FEMA/ArcGIS Online,
Paradise destroyed buildings data provided by ArcGIS Online via
Mike Gough (2022)
Fire boundary: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS)
NAD 1983 / UTM Zone 10N