Fountaingrove Parkway at Fir Ridge Drive and Parker Hill Road , Wednesday Oct. 25, 2017 in Santa Rosa, burned by the Tubbs fire. At top is Skyfarm Drive. (Kent Porter / Press Democrat) 2017

Eerie video of the Tubbs fire devastation of Fountaingrove - one year later

CHAD SURMICK THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
BY CHAD SURMICK THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

Last October, the North Bay was forever scarred by deadly wildfires. Fountaingrove was one of the hardest-hit areas in the region, and there have been plenty of photos and stories to prove it.

But to see it from the sky is another story.

Chad Surmick, The Press Democrat's director of photography, combined Google Earth database imagery to show the complete desolation of Fountaingrove.

In this time-lapse video, you will see video captured by satellite just before the fires, in August, compared with video from this month.

Read about how the wildfires changed Sonoma County:

Tubbs fire's toll reverberates in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County one year later

Hard lessons from October wildfires a ‘wake-up call' for Sonoma County

Sonoma County's commercial sector struggles with sluggish fire recovery

Readers share how the fires changed them forever

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