Before-and-after satellite images show devastating impact of wildfires
On the ground in Los Angeles, residents in the fire-hit neighbourhoods can't see the sheer scale of the devastation.
Entire swathes of the city are too dangerous to access and the thickness of smoke makes it hard to see far.
But from space the enormity of the destruction is made clear.
Satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies has shared pictures taken from space that show just how bad the wildfires have been.
This was part of the Pacific Palisades area of Los Angeles in October last year.
The leafy area has many celebrity homes, but is also where some working Los Angeleans live, many for decades.
Now, it's a chatted and smoking mess of complete obliteration.
The fire leapt across streets, fanned by strong winds, taking everything in its path.
With the area remaining dangerous, many locals don't know what, if anything, survived.
The area around Lincoln Avenue before the Eaton Fire hit Altadena which is to the north of LA, beyond Hollywood.
The meandering streets now only contain piles of ash and debris.
This staggering shot shows Altadena, on the outskirts of LA, lit up by fires buring through people's homes on the grid of streets.
The roads are intact but just about every home is destroyed after the fire swept through.
This before image shows an affluent beachside strip of homes north-west of Los Angeles.
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