Cal Fire calls it the Cooley Fire and lists 40 acres; a second, 500-acre burn on the same ranch was still approved for Saturday.
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Pulled vines piled beside a fallow vineyard block in western Sonoma County, June 23, 2026. Photo by Roger Coryell.
North Bay fuel dryness is headed past the 97th percentile
Bay Area forecasters project Energy Release Component values past the 97th percentile in the North Bay this weekend. No Red Flag Warning is in effect anywhere in California, and the reason comes down to wind.
The Sonoma Developmental Center campus in Glen Ellen. (JessaDMay / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sonoma Developmental Center still out of fire-code compliance
A brush fire this week was the reminder: the state-owned Sonoma Developmental Center campus in Glen Ellen is out of compliance with the county fire code as fire season sets in, and its redevelopment is stuck in court.