Palisades Fire Burn Area, in Infrastructure Resilience and Impact Study for Wildfire-affec

High-resolution aerial and street view imagery documents the impact of the January 2025 Palisades Fire on civil infrastructure in Pacific Palisades and Malibu. The dataset includes approximately 6.5 square kilometers of geo-referenced orthomosaics, 3D point cloud models, and digital surface models collected in February/March and September 2025. It captures fire spread patterns, structural damage, and the effectiveness of firebreaks in the wildland-urban interface.

Use Cases

• Fire spread modeling based on high-resolution aerial imagery of the burn area.
• Infrastructure resilience planning using detailed 3D point cloud models of damaged structures.
• Policy development for the wildland-urban interface informed by ground-level street view imagery.
• Computer model calibration and verification using geo-referenced orthomosaics and digital surface models.

Strengths

• High-resolution data collection via Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) covering approximately 6.5 square kilometers.
• Multi-temporal capture with data collected in two distinct periods (February/March 2025 and September 2025).
• Cross-platform availability indicates established curation and importance.

Limitations

• Column names and specific file formats are not detailed in the provided metadata.
• Conflicting license information: one source lists 'Open Data Commons Attribution', another lists 'None'.
• Dataset size and row counts are unknown across all sources.

Provenance

Source

NHERI RAPID Facility and Designsafe-CI.

Collection Method

Data collected via high-resolution aerial imaging with Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) and ground-level street view imagery.

Time Range

Data collected in February/March 2025 and September 2025, documenting fires that ignited on January 7, 2025.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-09-10 according to two sources.

Geography

Pacific Palisades and Malibu communities, Los Angeles region, USA.