This thesis proposes to confront the relationship between the climate and the image. In a global trajectory in which catastrophic weather events and the production and consumption of images are simultaneously increasing, there are growing gaps in climate discourse regarding how we define, comprehend and visualise extreme climatic events when those extremes are becoming more common. The research is situated in California, a state which has seen its climatic breakdown of wildfires, floods and droughts accelerated by a network of insufficient relationships between the landscape and its inhabitants. The thesis by-project will leverage the documentary capacities of the built environment to challenge the dangerous tropes of existing disaster imagery and provide a new conceptual framework for defining the extreme weather event. In the dissemination of these images the project is to generate evidence by which to influence broader and more accessible policy discussions around the disaster ecology that are less technocratic and more vibrant.