The Los Angeles wildfires are on pace to collectively be the most destructive in California’s history. The Eaton fire alone that ravaged Altadena, is projected to be the second worst in the state’s history. All told, more than 12,000 properties, most of them single-family homes, have been destroyed or severely damaged thus far. And while that figure is a few thousand shy of the destruction toll of Northern California’s 2018 Camp Fire, as journalist Lydia DePillis noted in The Times, “This is a different kind of house.”…