Heartbroken homeowners tearfully returned to the shells of their burnt-out often multi-million-dollar homes a day after at least 20 were destroyed by California’s latest wildfire.

“It’s like Ukraine. It’s like a war zone here,” Fred Minager, a city council member and former mayor of the devastated community overlooking Laguna Beach, told Fox 11 on Thursday.

Minager had moved from the Big Apple to Laguna Niguel in 1989 to the community of “very successful people that over the years have accumulated money to come and buy beautiful homes.”

“It’s shocking to me to see their homes like this,” he told Fox 11 of the neighbors whose homes were razed by Wednesday’s blaze, which may have been sparked by electric utility equipment.

“There’s nothing to salvage. There’s nothing. Everything is burned. I can’t even recognize it.”

Sassan Darian — who saw his 5,000-square-foot home ablaze in TV footage after getting his family out just in time — made a similar analogy as he returned to the ruins of his home and Mercedes-Benz Thursday.

“Everything is just demolished … Everything is smashed to smithereens and there’s just this random piece of metal, and it looked just like a war zone,” Darian told the Orange County Register.

Darian, 38, fled with his 7-year-old daughter and 62-year-old father while embers swirled around them — so late, they were terrified they were also about to burn, he recounted.

“It looked like an inferno, so we just jumped in the car,” he said, recalling how “the sky, everything was orange.”

“My daughter was yelling, ‘We’re on fire!’” He told the local outlet. “I felt myself, and there were embers on us. It was just an intense heat,” he said, recalling patting themselves down.