Eyewitness News toured four different lots and spoke with homeowners, each sharing a snapshot of the many different struggles fire victims have been facing since the disaster.
On that single block, four homes are slowly coming back to life.
"This past year has been equal parts wonderful and full of hope and promise and optimism, and it's also been a nightmare," said Jonathan Weedman, who lost his home in the fire. "It's a nightmare that never leaves you, that's always with you, that you're always thinking about."
Weedman and Raymundo Baltazar are two of the homeowners on Poppyfields Drive who are planning to move into their new home this year.
"We want to come home," said Baltazar. "We want to come home together. We want to come back to picking up our lives."
But for many of their neighbors on the tight-knit street, the future isn't so certain.
Justin Smith and Kim Grant are desperate to return to Poppyfields Drive, but like so many other fire victims, their insurance won't cover the costs of rebuilding.
"The estimates to rebuild it for the insurance company are about here, builder says he can do it about there, and insurance only covers it until about there," explained Smith. "At this point, 12 months into everything ... we're not standing on stable ground."
Grant said they have no idea where the money is going to come from.
"We're going to try our darndest to come up with this money, the gap money, but it's a holding pattern," she said. "It's exhausting."
Mehera Halliwell and her husband Scott Hagie lost their home on Poppyfields Drive too, but just months after the flames destroyed everything, they bought a second lot after their next-door neighbors decided they didn't want to return.
"I think it was just ... psychologically, it was just so traumatic that I think they really just did not want to deal with it," said Halliwell.
The couple is now trying to figure out the financials as the estimates to rebuild continue to climb.
"It's very overwhelming, psychologically," said Halliwell. "Another thing that was so demoralizing was hearing about all the people who had started building and then everything was getting stolen."
For the fire victims, the challenges and the steps to rebuild are immense, but so is the desire to return to the close-knit street they call home.
"Let's build this thing back," said Smith. "Let's make it a great house, let's make it a great community. The neighbors are back, the trees grow back, everybody's happy, and Altadena can resume being the wonderfully weird and magical place that it is."