Last updated 2025-01-20 with imagery from 2025-01-16.
This page does not include all open data images from Maxar, more is available with a free account as described below.
LAFD is conducting damage assessments of homes which may have more detailed information about your property. More information is available at recovery.lacounty.gov
For detailed fire information, I recommend Watchduty.
- 2025-01-20: Noted newer images are now available at Maxar
- Added link to recovery.lacounty.gov
- Updated both fires to include more area, but the time the photo was taken is the same.
Maxar is a company that sells various satellite photo products. They make some data available for emergency situations.
They take pictures for customers, and also apparently release open data of their choosing. I don't know or control when they update it.
The images are available from Maxar's open data with a free account, but you have to sign up and isn't super quick and doesn't work very well on the phone.
I've copied the main images here they've taken for quick reference and processed them for quick viewing.
I'm not sure if they have stopped releasing open images of this event or if there will be updated imagery in the future.
You may be able to contact them to see if they can make more imagery available, or perhaps purchase some, I'm not exactly sure.
Maxar has some satellite imagery of the Palisades and Eaton fires that is high resolution and is more up to date than I have found on any other services.
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Visit https://xpress.maxar.com and sign up for a free account.
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Click the "Open Data" button in the sidebar.
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Choose the LA fire event.
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Select a relevant image. Note the time and region is different, and the order of everything is kinda confusing.
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Browse the imagery in their web view. Or you can download the original "Visual Image" of an "ARD tile" of interest. These images are gigantic and will look blurry and break most programs except Photoshop.
Generate a dzi image pyramid with vips.
gdalbuildvrt my_mosaic.vrt *_visual-image.tif
gdalwarp my_mosaic.vrt final_mosaic_visual.tif -co COMPRESS=DEFLATE -co BIGTIFF=YES -multi
vips dzsave final_mosaic_visual.tif ./images/id
and copy and tweak the html file
Any help is welcome improving this, make a PR or issue on GitHub or notify me somehow.