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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 ...
Fire officials in Northern California reported further headway on Friday against the most lethal outbreak of wildfires in state history. California wildfires rage as record death toll climbs to 35 ...
The Thomas Fire was a massive wildfire that affected Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, and one of multiple wildfires that ignited in Southern California in December 2017. It burned approximately 281,893 acres (440 sq mi; 114,078 ha) before being fully contained on January 12, 2018, making it the largest wildfire in modern California history ...
The death toll from wildfires raging in northern California rose to at least 34 Friday, as firefighters continued to battle blazes around the state.