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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.
The October 2017 fires were the costliest group of wildfires on record at the time, causing around $14.5 billion (2017 USD) in damages, including $11 billion in insured losses and $1.5 billion in fire suppression costs, [5] [6] surpassing the 1991 Oakland firestorm, which until then had been the single costliest fire on record.
[14] [15] At the time, the Thomas Fire was California's largest modern wildfire, which has since been surpassed by the Mendocino Complex's Ranch Fire in 2018. The December 2017 fires forced over 230,000 people to evacuate, with the 6 largest fires burning over 307,900 acres (1,246 km 2) and more than 1,300 structures. [16] [17]
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.
“This fire is very dangerous and spreading rapidly, but we'll continue to attack it with all we've got,” Governor Jerry Brown said. Hundreds of homes destroyed by out-of-control California ...
In Sonoma County, a fire scorched about 1,013 acres, tore though an unknown number of structures and prompted an evacuation order and warning in the Upper Dry Creek Valley, according to Cal Fire.
The 2017 wildfire season involved wildfires on multiple continents. On Greenland, which is mostly covered by ice and permafrost, multiple fires occurred in melted peat bogs, described as "unusual, and possibly unprecedented". [1] [2] Popular media asked whether the wildfires were related to global warming.
The video was taken by Matthew McDermott of Sonoma, California. He said he and his friend came across the sight Monday while trying to find an escape route as wildfires began to ravage the area ...