What is October 2017 Northern California wildfires?
The '''October 2017 Northern California wildfires''' were a series of [[fire]]s in [[California]]. The fires started on October 8 and 9 across [[Sonoma County, California|Sonoma]], [[Mendocino County, California|Mendocino]], [[Napa County, California|Napa]], [[Solano County, California|Solano]], [[Lake County, California|Lake]] and [[Butte County, California|Butte]] counties in the state. There were seventeen separate [[wildfire]]s burning across California.<ref>{{cite web|title=California Fires Lay Waste to 140,000 Acres and Rage On|publisher=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/us/california-fires.html|access-date=October 20, 2017}}</ref> Over 5,700 [[house]]s and [[business]]es were severely damaged or destroyed in the fires. The Tubbs fire was the most expensive of the fires. It caused over $1 billion [[United States dollar|USD]] in damage.<ref>{{cite web|title=California Statewide Fire Summary|publisher=CalFire|url=http://calfire.ca.gov/communications/communications_StatewideFireSummary|access-date=October 20, 2017|archive-date=October 14, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181014090217/http://calfire.ca.gov/communications/communications_StatewideFireSummary|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other fires included the Atlas fire and Nuns fire. ==References== <references/> [[Category:2017 California wildfires]] [[Category:October 2017 events]]