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2017 wildfire in Northern California

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 2018.^[8] The Tubbs Fire was one of more than a dozen large fires that broke out in early October 2017, which were simultaneously burning in eight Northern California counties, in what was called the "Northern California firestorm".^[9] By the time of its containment on October 31, the fire was estimated to have burned 36,810 acres (149 km²);^[10][11] at least 22 people were believed to have been killed in Sonoma County by the fire.^[12]

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