Satellite images have captured the trail of destruction left by fires burning in Los Angeles and its surrounding communities.
The fires have been burning since Monday and have razed just over 11 square kilometres of the city.
Thousands of homes and buildings have been destroyed and residents across the city have been evacuated from their homes as they continue to burn.
Satellite images from Maxar Technologies have captured the drastic change to the city in just a few short days, and paint a bleak picture of the clean-up still ahead for authorities.
An iconic stretch of the Pacific Highway near Malibu was destroyed earlier this week, lost in the Pacific Palisades fire which has caused the most widespread damage of the blazes so far.
The Palisades fire is the largest burning in the county, and encompasses much of the western side of Los Angeles between the Pacific Ocean and the Santa Monica Mountains.
The Palisades fire has burned through thousands of structures, including five churches, a synagogue, seven schools, two libraries, boutiques, bars, restaurants, banks and grocery stores.
It also razed parts of Will Rogers State Historic Park and destroyed multi-million-dollar homes in the Summit neighbourhood.
Authorities said it was the Pacific Palisades fire that ignited 'block after block' from the region towards inland Altadena and sparked the Eaton blaze.
The total number of homes lost in the Palisades is still not known, but celebrities like Spencer Pratt, Paris Hilton and James Woods lost their homes in the blaze.
Meanwhile, the deadliest fire was in Eaton.
Altadena sits north of the city of Pasadena and is surrounded by bushland in the Angeles National Forrest and San Gabriel Mountains.
The fire has killed at least five people and seriously injured a number of others since it started.
Evacuation orders remain in place by the City of Los Angeles regarding the Eaton fire, meaning more than 130,000 people remain displaced.
Pasadena Fire Chief Chad Augustin told Altadena residents somewhere "between 200 and 500 structures" have been damaged or lost in the Eaton fire alone.
That number has since risen to more than 5,000 structures.
Across the LA area, about 450,000 homes and businesses remain without power due to significant damage to infrastructure and electrical lines.
The total number of destroyed houses and buildings is yet to be released, but an independent research team at the financial services company J.P. Morgan told USA Today an early estimate for the damage was already at about $16 billion.
As the clean-up continues, firefighters are concerned conditions will only worsen throughout the week.
The Santa Ana winds are expected to impact the wildfires and potentially spread them beyond the current control zones.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass said at a press conference on Thursday it was important the city understood the worst was not over.
"We're adapting in real time," she said.
"We are still facing strong and erratic winds and in the Palisades and Sylmar, we are very much in active fire fight.
"I am making sure we leave no resource untapped."
with Reuters and AP
