Wildfires Destroy Neighborhood in Santa Rosa (10/31/18)

This satellite image shows the damage caused by wildfires (from Oct 2017) in the Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa, CA. The destroyed homes appear as a continuous, homogenous, group of building remains that take up about half of the spatial extent of the photo. The burned homes have a much lighter tone than the dark roofs on the standing homes. There are homes that evaded the fire surrounding all sides but the north section of the burned homes suggesting that the fire came in from the north. According to an analysis of the satellite images from Santa Rosa by The New York Times, about 1,800 buildings were destroyed by the wildfires which was three times higher than the estimate officials had made earlier. This photo shows about 1,300 of those destroyed buildings in the Coffey Park neighborhood alone. This image and its analysis were important in visualizing and providing a more accurate estimation of the extent of the damage caused by the wildfires, something that was not accomplished as well without the aid of satellite imagery
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/12/us/santa-rosa-california-fires-damage.html