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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.
Aerial view of homes destroyed by wildfire in the Coffey Park neighborhood in Santa Rosa on Oct. 11, 2017. (Marcus Yam/Los Angeles Times)
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 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.
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The historic building was destroyed on October 9, 2017, during the Tubbs Fire. Fountain Grove was a utopian colony founded near Santa Rosa, California, by Thomas Lake Harris in 1875. [1] Most of its settlers were followers of Harris's Brotherhood of the New Life and moved with Harris from their previous colony at Brocton, New York.
California wildfires raged into an affluent Los Angeles neighborhood, forcing evacuations, threatening homes and temporarily shutting a major highway.