Satellite images show the extent of devastation from multiple wildfires burning in Los Angeles County after one day.

Satellite imagery shows houses burned down, roads closed, and the fires spreading across Los Angeles.

Newly released satellite imagery provides a chilling depiction of the destruction left by wildfires that have been raging across parts of Los Angeles County, California.

The Eaton Fire destroyed homes in Altadena Calif., a town northeast of Pasadena. The image was captured Jan. 8 by Maxar Technologies' shortwave infrared sensor. This sensor has the ability to see through the dense smoke of an active fire to the ground beneath, as well as locating the flame front and hot spots in the fire, according to Maxar.

Entire swathes of the city are too dangerous to access and the thickness of smoke makes it hard to see far. But from space the enormity of the destruction is made clear. Satellite imagery company Maxar Technologies has shared pictures taken from space that show just how bad the wildfires have been.

Multiple fires burning in Los Angeles, California, have razed neighbourhoods and decimated Hollywood landmarks in one of the country's worst-ever fire disasters.

Satellite and aerial images captured the extent of the damage wrought by the wildfires sweeping through Los Angeles.