BATTLE FOR NORTH BAY-LARGEST EVACUATION IN REGIONAL HISTORY

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Overnight winds reached 93 miles per hour in the mountains north of Healdsburg, part of a windstorm that caused the Kincade Fire to jump its lines, sparked spot fires, and prompted Cal Fire and Sonoma County officials to expand the largest, and most unprecedented evacuation in Northern California history.

This view is from 6:30AM from Mt. St. Helena looking north:

As daybreak approached, County and state officials took the extraordinary step of expanding the evacuation to include large parts of the city of Santa Rosa, greatly increasing the number of people who would have to leave their homes in the darkness. Already 90 thousand residents had been asked to evacuate by 8pm Saturday.

Evacuation updates can be found here:

SONOMA COUNTY EVACUATION INFORMATION

The new evacuations include areas of Santa Rosa north of Steele Lane, west of downtown at highway 101, as well as the cities of Sebastopol and almost all of west Sonoma County.

Zone 6: NE Santa Rosa including Fountaingrove, Oakmont, Rincon Valley / Zone 7: Forestville, Guerneville, Duncans Mills, Jenner, Bodega Bay, Occidental/ Zone 8: Sebastopol and Valley Ford / Zone 9: Coffey Park and Santa Rosa north of Guerneville Rd/Steele Lane / Zone 10: West of Hwy. 101 between Guerneville Rd. and Ludwig Ave.