Kincade Fire

Wildfire in Sonoma County, October 2019

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Printed October 28, 2026 from www.firezones.info/fire/8001/kincade-fire-2019

Key facts

Started October 23, 2019
Contained November 10, 2019, after 18 days
Burned 77,762 acres
Largest fire of 2019 and 76th largest in California's records
Cause Power lines
Buildings 372 destroyed, 60 damaged
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Where it burned

Counties

  1. Sonoma County 77,236 acres
  2. Lake County 522 acres

Communities

  1. Geyserville 265 acres
  2. Windsor 202 acres
  3. Larkfield-Wikiup 2 acres

Acres are the land the fire burned in each county and community, and places where it burned less than an acre are not listed. Communities are cities, towns and the unincorporated places the Census Bureau names, so land outside any of them is counted only in its county.

Buildings damaged

  1. Destroyed Over 50% damaged 372
  2. Major damage 25 to 50% damaged 6
  3. Minor damage 10 to 25% damaged 14
  4. Affected Up to 10% damaged 40

Buildings CAL FIRE inspected after the fire, by how badly each was damaged. Inspectors record homes, businesses and outbuildings within 100 meters of the fire, and cannot always reach every one, so the counts can differ slightly from other reports.

The same land, other fires

Burned before

  1. 1943 Unnamed fire 1,281 acres shared
  2. 1945 Unnamed fire 2,484 acres in total 2,435 acres shared
  3. 1949 Unnamed fire 880 acres shared
  4. 1950 P.g.& E. #4 Fire 1,133 acres in total 1,093 acres shared
  5. 1961 Remmel Fire 596 acres shared
  6. 1964 C. Hanly Fire 55,961 acres in total 3,176 acres shared
  7. 1965 P.g.& E.#10 Fire 13,172 acres in total 12,898 acres shared
  8. 1965 Pocket Ranch Fire 4,816 acres in total 2,191 acres shared
  9. 1976 Ida Clayton Fire 502 acres in total 432 acres shared
  10. 1978 Resort Fire 995 acres shared
  11. 1988 Unnamed fire 11,380 acres in total 3,661 acres shared
  12. 1988 Geysers Series Fire 353 acres in total 340 acres shared
  13. 1991 Geysers Fire 5,771 acres in total 4,666 acres shared
  14. 1999 Pg&E #22 Fire Cause: Power lines 1,407 acres shared
  15. 2004 Geysers Fire 12,244 acres in total · Cause: Equipment use 9,673 acres shared
  16. 2008 Geysers Fire Cause: Debris burning 288 acres shared
  17. 2013 Mccabe Fire 3,506 acres in total 998 acres shared
  18. 2015 Valley Fire 76,085 acres in total 850 acres shared
  19. 2017 Pocket Fire 17,359 acres in total 4,627 acres shared
  20. 2017 Tubbs Fire 36,702 acres in total 3,550 acres shared

And 9 more fires that burned less of the same land. Acres are the land each fire shares with the Kincade Fire, and fires that shared less than an acre are not counted. Some older or smaller fires may be missing, and a fire perimeter can include unburned patches. How to read fire history

Sources

Fire history
CAL FIRE Fire and Resource Assessment Program
Published 28 July 2026
Building damage
CAL FIRE Damage Inspection
Updated 19 October 2026

This site is independent and not affiliated with CAL FIRE or the CPUC, so for an official determination, check with the agency or your city or county. How we read the data