Embers help wildfires jump from wildlands to urban areas

Buildings damaged in

Altadena, California, from

the Los Angeles wildfires

Wildland

Los Angeles

county

Ember

zone

2 mi

Altadena

2 km

Buildings damaged in

Altadena, California, from

the Los Angeles wildfires

Wildland

Los Angeles

county

Ember

zone

2 mi

Altadena

2 km

Buildings damaged in

Altadena, California, from

the Los Angeles wildfires

Wildland

Los Angeles

county

Ember

zone

2 mi

Altadena

2 km

Buildings damaged in

Altadena, California, from

the Los Angeles wildfires

Wildland

Los Angeles

county

Ember

zone

2 mi

Altadena

2 km

Buildings damaged in

Altadena, California, from

the Los Angeles wildfires

Wildland

Los Angeles

county

Ember

zone

2 mi

Altadena

2 km

Buildings damaged in

Altadena, California, from

the Los Angeles wildfires

Wildland

Ember

zone

Los Angeles

county

2 mi

Altadena

2 km

Guardian graphic. Sources: US Forest Service Wildland Urban Interface. Wildland is defined as vegetated, non-WUI area. Ember zone is a 1.5 mile buffer from the wildland. Building damage analysis of Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite data by Corey Scher of CUNY Graduate Center and Jamon Van Den Hoek of Oregon State University.