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The wildfires collectively caused at least $18.0 billion (2018 USD) in damages, including $13.2 billion in insured losses, $3 billion in other economic losses, and $1.8 billion in fire suppression costs, making the 2017 California fires the second-costliest on record.
The October 2017 Northern California wildfires, also known as the Northern California firestorm, North Bay Fires, and the Wine Country Fires [7] were a series of 250 wildfires that started burning across the state of California, United States, beginning in early October. Twenty-one became major fires that burned at least 245,000 acres (99,148 ha).
The Tubbs Fire was a wildfire in Northern California during October 2017. At the time, the Tubbs Fire was the most destructive wildfire in California history, [7] [1] burning parts of Napa, Sonoma, and Lake counties, inflicting its greatest losses in the city of Santa Rosa. Its destructiveness was surpassed only a year later by the Camp Fire of ...
The fires have scorched more than 190,000 acres, an area nearly the size of NYC, reducing whole neighborhoods in the city of Santa Rosa to gray ash. California wildfires kill at least 31 as wind ...
Nearly two dozen blazes spanning eight counties have charred around 170,000 acres across northern California's wine country. At least 21 dead, hundreds missing as winds fan California wildfires ...
In 2019, for example, Pacific Gas & Electric agreed to an $11 billion settlement with insurance companies for claims stemming from 2017 wildfires in Northern California and the 2018 Camp Fire.
Climate change in California has lengthened the fire season and made it more extreme from the middle of the 20th century. [4] [5]Since the early 2010s, wildfires in California are growing more dangerous because of the accumulation of wood fuel in forests, higher population, and aging and often poorly maintained electricity transmission and distribution lines, particularly in areas serviced by ...
Fire officials in Northern California reported further headway on Friday against the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in state history.