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‪By completely destroying the city of Paradise (27 000 inhabitants) and its surroundings, the deadliest fire in the history of the United States caused a major shock. This article looks at how this disaster affected the attachment to the forest. Starting from the shock of discovering the burnt landscape, the goal is to understand what this attachment is made of. On one hand we analyze how the stories tell this attachment after the fire, on the other hand we analyze how the relationship to the institutions in charge of forest management has been impacted. The fire has upset the relationship to the landscape and made the experience of living in a treeless forest a puzzling situation.‪