Fig. 6
From: Twenty-first century California, USA, wildfires: fuel-dominated vs. wind-dominated fires
(a) Home incinerated with very little vegetation surrounding the home, illustrating the role of embers, not radiant heat of the fire front (actually, lack of vegetation may have contributed to more rapid laminar flow of the ember load to the house. (b, c) Homes incinerated while adjacent green trees survived. (d) Home unburned while homes within 30 m were destroyed. (e) Home that survived had a border of green trees between it and adjacent destroyed homes, perhaps acting as a barrier to embers hitting the house. Photo credit: Jon Keeley, USGS, Nov 2018, in the town of Paradise