Lake County gained thousands of residents and lost more than a thousand homes since 2010, nearly all in the 2015 Valley Fire. Eleven years on, no agency will say how many burned homes came back.
Trees killed by wildfire still stand above the regrowth near Middletown, in the heart of the 2015 Valley Fire burn area. (Roger Coryell, June 7, 2026)
Lake County gained thousands of residents and lost more than a thousand homes since 2010, nearly all in the 2015 Valley Fire. Eleven years on, no agency will say how many burned homes came back.