Rainn Wilson shows his house after it was damaged in a mountain fire. Photo:
Soul Boom/Instagram
The actor’s California home “almost burned down” in the November 2024 blaze, he revealed in an Instagram video
Rainn Wilson is doing some reflecting after losing a large portion of his home in a mountain fire.
The actor and podcast host, 58, first announced that he and wife Holiday Reinhorn’s California home had “almost burned down” in the mountain fire that swept through Ventura County last month in a Nov. 11 Instagram post.
Wilson, best known for his role as Dwight Schruteon The Office, kept a positive attitude during the video, expressing gratitude because he and Reinhorn’s home was not entirely destroyed like so many others were during the fire.
In Wilson’s own words, their residence was “very severely damaged, but we got to keep our home,” unlike some of their close neighbors.
He also extended a “big shout-out” to Reinhorn, who helped evacuate their pigs and other animals — the couple has two pigs, Amy and Snorty, in their barn — “at the last minute” as embers were “flying over the hill.”
In the caption, Wilson added that the pair are “some of the luckiest people in Ventura County.”
On Friday, Dec. 13, over a month after the fire, the actor shared a video to his official Soul Boompodcast account walking through some of the rubble that the fire left behind — and used it to crowdsource some inspiring words.
“Well, this is not something I ever thought I’d be doing,” he began in the clip. “Walking through the remains of my bedroom and my closet and my bathroom, and there’s my toilet. My charred toilet.”
As he continued walking through the home, showing his followers the state of his office and other rooms following the devastating fire, Wilson said, “There’s some kind of valuable lesson here. I’m not sure what it is — kind of death and fire teaches you a lesson about the impermanence of life and the preciousness of what we have.”
“So I hope you all stay grateful today, for what you have,” he told his Soul Boom followers before asking them what lessons they think he may be “undergoing” as a result of the house fire.
“It’s all a little much for me,” he explained, adding that he gets “so overwhelmed, my brain just goes offline — I can barely process it.”
The actor wrapped his video on a positive note, adding that he’s “grateful” that most of the couple’s California home is intact despite the fire.
“Amid the ashes is sometimes … where we best reflect on what truly holds value in our lives,” he added in the caption.
