Before and After Images of Hurricane Irma's Destruction in Barbuda and the Virgin Islands

At a Glance

• Newly released images from Digital Globe show the devastation left behind by Hurricane Irma.
• Among the scenes in this imagery are damaged homes, new cuts in beaches and thousands of defoliated trees.

Hurricane Irma's devastation in the Caribbean is being further revealed by new aerial imagery.

(COMPLETE HURRICANE IRMA COVERAGE: Hurricane Central)

DigitalGlobe released images taken over the northern Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, parts of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Turks and Caicos, and Great Inagua Island taken Sept. 8-10.

Here is a sampling of some of the features we noticed in this imagery.

(MORE: Irma's Historical Benchmarks Exceeded)

Codrington, Barbuda

According to UNOSAT, 88 percent of structures in Barbuda were possibly damaged, representing over 1,000 buildings.

Barbuda Coastal Cuts

In a statement on September 6, Barbuda and Antigua's Prime Minister Gaston Browne said catastrophic damage left parts of the Caribbean "practically uninhabitable."

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Storm Runoff, Vegetation Stripped

Many of the post-storm images show vegetation stripped by the Category 5 hurricane as it nailed the northern Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands, Turks and Caicos, and Great Inagua Island.

(MORE: Satellite Images of Irma as a Category 5 Hurricane)

British Virgin Island Beach Trashed

This beach on the island of Tortola was scoured by Irma. Note in addition to the stripped vegetation, the push of sand inland and some damaged buildings, as well.

Jonathan Erdman is a senior meteorologist at weather.com and has been an incurable weather geek since a tornado narrowly missed his childhood home in Wisconsin at age 7. Follow him on Facebook and Twitter.