Wine Country Marks Eight Years Since Devastating Wildfires, as Rebuilding Is Still Ongoing In Santa Rosa

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/10/09/wine-country-marks-eight-years-since-devastating-wildfires-as-rebuilding-is-still-ongoing-in-santa-rosa/On October 8, 2017, wildfires ignited in multiple spots in Napa and Sonoma counties, seemingly all at once, amid a dangerous windstorm that helped the fires to spread rapidly and disastrously, especially for two residential neighborhoods in Santa Rosa. This week marks the eighth anniversary of those fires — known as the Tubbs Fire (Santa Rosa), the Nuns Fire (Glen Ellen/Sonoma), the Pocket Fire (Cloverdale), and the Atlas Fire (Napa), with the three Sonoma fires becoming known as the 2017 Sonoma Complex fires, and the whole, including other NorCal fires, dubbed the October 2017 Fire Siege. While homes were lost in all o