Access has a lot to do with it. It's fairly easy to move in any directon in SoCal. But if SoCal topography was a bowl with limited escape routes and the fire cut off most escape routes, the end result would have been totally different.

Never mind the poor folks, never mind the poor government of NOLA. New Orleans sits in a river delta, it's built on thousands of feet of soft sand, silt, and clay, it's between six and ten feet under sea level, it's sinking at the approximate rate of three feet every 100 years, and half the population lived in the part that would normally be underwater.

And people on this forum are sneering at rebuilding in CALIFORNIA???

Sue