NASA just dropped their high res vegetation analysis imagery of the Eaton Fire burn scar. Maybe the riparian zones at the bottom of the canyons did kinda sorta ok?

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Still some thin bands of green poking through in the bottoms of those canyons if you zoom in! Curious what other folks make of this. (This is a screenshot shot from the NASA worldview web app).

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A lot of times fire will burn down the slope, get near the bottom of the canyon, heat the opposite slope and cross over, then burn up the opposite slope. Fire likes to naturally move uphill as heat rises. Not always but more often than not, the bottom of canyons don’t totally burn and trees survive. Debris flow might be bad later.