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Here is a link to a good aerial map showing the devastation to the east. It is centered on the Kmart building but you can scroll around and zoom in and out.
The enormity of this disaster is staggering...
Red on the map is unburned, grey is burned.
Santa Rosa Fire Aerial Map
Keith
Thank you very much for the info !
I used to walk up the hill past the old HP plant all the time.
I'm curious about the homes that burned in the neighborhood at the corner of Fountain Grove & Altruria.
The map shows that they are still surrounded by vegetation. That is a surprise.
Question - what are the roofs usually made of ?
Probably not ceramic tile, like you see all over the imitation Spanish architecture in Southern California.
I thought these homes (near Fountaingrove) burned because they were next to burning forest, that it was part of the area where homes were built and they tried to keep some of the original natural landscape.
However, looking at the pictures, since the vegetation surrounding the homes is intact, that means they were vulnerable to a "falling (flaming) embers" fire condition. And the roof was the probable target for those embers, not the dry vegetation leaves sticks etc. that go with the natural landscape.
I found one of my customers former homes in Fountaingrove. It is gone, and it was a stucco home with a Spanish tile roof.
My guess is that the red vegetation shown in the map did burn, but just not to the ground like the homes.
Keith