Recent Events
Sonoma County has been widely recognized as a good place to sell
umbrellas. Numerous winter storms have brought heavy winds and rain,
causing flooding in the lower Russian River, Petaluma River and
local streams and creeks. Sonoma County has activated the Emergency
Operations Center (EOC) in the January and March 1995 Winter Storms,
large storms in December 1995 and February 1996, the Cavedale and
Porter Creek Wildfires in August 1996, the New Year's Flood of 1997,
the 1998 El Nino Flood and Rio Nido Slide incidents, as well as
the 2004 Geysers Fire.
Since 1991, Sonoma County/Op Area has had:
- 11 Emergency Operations Center (EOC) Activations for actual
events
- 13 Declarations of Local Emergency
- 8 Gubernatorial Disaster Declarations
(this is when the Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) offers assistance)
- 7 Presidential Emergency/Disaster Declarations
- 4 Activations of the Russian River Incident Command Post
| Year |
Event Name |
Dates |
EOC
Activated |
Local
Emergency |
Gubernatorial
Declaration |
Presidential
Declaration |
| 1991 |
Freeze of ’91 |
Dec 90 - Feb 91 |
|
X |
X |
X |
| 1993 |
Flood of ’93 |
Jan 20-25 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
| 1994 |
Fishing Emergency |
May – Sep |
|
X |
X |
X |
| 1995 |
Flood of '95, Part I |
Jan 8-31 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
| 1995 |
Flood of '95, Part II |
Mar 7-15 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
| 1995 |
December Winter Storm |
Dec 11-12 |
X |
X |
|
|
| 1996 |
February Winter Storm |
Feb 4-5 |
X |
|
|
|
| 1996 |
Cavedale Fire |
July 31-Aug 20 |
X |
X |
|
|
| 1996 |
Jenner Sandbarrier |
Jul 31 - Aug 20 |
|
X |
|
|
| 1996 |
Porter Creek Fire |
Oct 27-28 |
X |
|
|
|
| 1997 |
New Year's Flood |
Dec 30 - Jan 4 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
| 1997 |
Superbowl Flood |
Jan 25 |
X |
|
|
|
| 1998 |
Flood of '98 (Rio Nido) |
Feb 2, 1998 - Jan 4, 2000 |
X |
X |
X |
X |
| 1999 |
February Winter Storm |
Feb 8-10 |
|
X |
X |
|
| 2002 |
December Winter Storms |
December |
|
X |
|
|
| 2004 |
Geysers Fire |
Sep 3 - 7 |
X |
X |
|
|
|
