Camp Fire, Paradise, California 2018.Notice some of the trees survived, This was a curious firestorm. Infrared heat ignited homesĀ from storm generated winds and horizontal flames, but some places where the flames were not blowing, the woods survived. Only ten percent of homes survived in the entire town of Paradise, population 26,000 in 2010, 2,034 in April 2019 in a door to door count.