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Bill Boutin looks at his laptop inside the RV that he and his wife Kaylynn Reeb live in after power was restored at the Cloverdale Citrous Fairgrounds evacuation center in Cloverdale, California, on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019. Bill and Kaylynn lost their home to the Pocket Fire in Geyserville in 2017, and after living in their RV for the last few years, they recently had to evacuate under threat of the Kincade Fire

Kincade Fire

Once burned, twice evacuated: After Kincade Fire, some reconsider Sonoma County

Compared with the Wine Country fires of 2017, the Kincade Fire of 2019 was a story of success: No lives were lost, and a valiant team of fire crews beat back the flames from thousands of vulnerable homes. But after the second devastating firestorm in two years, some residents say they’re weighing how much longer they’ll call Sonoma County home.

A portrait of Lon Walker at the Chateau Senior Mobile Home Park on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2019, in Oroville, Calif. Walker's wife, Ellen Walker, died in the 2018 Camp Fire at their Concow home.

California Wildfires

A name lost in flames: Did the last unidentified victim of the Camp Fire die a hero?

One year after the fire tore through the Sierra foothills, 84 people who died have been identified. But one person endures as a mystery — a man whose remains were found in the scorched footprint of a mobile home, burned beyond recognition.

California Wildfires

Graphics: Why California continues to burn

Wildfires are worsening in California. Many circumstances, including global warming, drought and aging infrastructure, have converged to create a deteriorating situation.

California Fire Tracker

This interactive map was developed in The San Francisco Chronicle newsroom and provides information on wildfires burning across California. Click to view the real-time map.

Chronicle at the Scene

Camp Fire: Three more victims identified — only 2 of 86 people killed
They were Evelyn Cline, 81, Herbert Alderman, 79, and Isabel Webb, 68. All three individuals were from Paradise.

Hammering on a summer day sparked argest wildfire, report says
The report on the Ranch Fire provided a chilling, moment-by-moment account of how quickly a small spark can spread into an out-of-control blaze under hot, dry, windy conditions — even when the...

Interactive

Interactive Map: Will the PG&E; power shut-offs affect you?

PG&E; and Wildfires

Outracing the Tubbs fire: survivor's tales from Coffey Park
The wind pounded against the window panes and whistled under the front door. It screeched, hungry and alive. In her 61 years, Astrid Granger had never heard anything like it. She was elbow-deep...

Visual Essay

Visual Essay: One year after the Wine Country wildfires
A wildfire ignited near Tubbs lane north of Calistoga. The blaze killed 24 people and leveled 4,651 homes. This is a visual record of those...

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Lost and found: Keepsakes pulled from the ruins of wildfires
Brad Hoffman stands amid the ashes of his Coffey Park home in Santa Rosa. "It's just wild," he says. "I can't believe it. As I walk away I feel...

Ed Bledsoe couldn’t outrace the Carr Fire to save his family
REDDING — Melody and the kids are on vacation, somewhere far away, Ed Bledsoe told himself as he steered his old red pickup along this city’s back roads. They weren’t running errands with him...

Bringing Home Braden: The ‘rescue’ of a fallen firefighter
In the midst of the 2018 Ferguson Fire in Northern California, a young bulldozer driver tumbled to his death trying to cut a fire break to protect his friends and his neighbors. Despite flames and...

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150 Minutes of Hell: Death and survival in a tornado of fire
The Carr Fire — to that point a dangerous but rather ordinary California inferno — was about to spawn something monstrous: a fire tornado the...