I had not seen any of the Palisades Fire area until I went to Zuma Beach last Friday. Here is an excellent
zoomable map documenting Palisades Fire damage. Friday was the first day of Dine L.A.'s two week restaurant promotions. I couldn't resist this lobster roll special overlooking Malibu Beach.
Driving east from there I soon reached the homes on the beach side of PCH which had burned down, leaving an occasional cement wall.
Even more than in Altadena, these homes surely caught fire from each other as there is rarely any space between them. Driving along PCH I saw nothing on the inland hillsides. Out of view far above are some houses, but they are spaced and from the map less than half of them burned.
Occasionally there were surviving beach houses, usually in a small cluster like starting at far left of this pic.
This was one of the few places debris had not been cleared 6 months later.
As in Altadena, here are some burned out cars.
Approaching Topanga Canyon Blvd. the beachfront is narrower so most of the houses were built on cement pilings.
Only the pilings remain.
As I turned inland there are charred tree skeletons on the right hillside.
Per the map there is a neighborhood on top of that hillside with 80+% destruction similar to the area I drove through in Altadena.
Comparable
zoomable damage map for Eaton Fire.
