Support the Valley Stewards Fund
Every gap in the landscape
puts the whole valley at risk.
Wildfire doesn’t respect property lines. When a strategically critical parcel goes unmanaged — because the landowner lacks the means — it creates a gap that can unravel an entire network of well-managed properties around it. The Valley Stewards Fund exists to close those gaps.
Where Your Gift Goes
Funding the work that holds the system together.
Gifts to the Valley Stewards Fund support one focused mission: ensuring that the properties most critical to Napa County’s wildfire resilience get the professional assessment, mapping, and CAL FIRE integration they need — regardless of whether the landowner can pay for it.
Field Work
Assessment & planning on the ground
Professional site visits, GIS mapping, and Master Resilience Plans for high-priority properties that would otherwise go undocumented and unprotected.
Operational Integration
Getting sites into CAL FIRE’s systems
Delivering completed site data directly into CAL FIRE’s Tablet Command — so first responders arrive at a fire knowing exactly what’s been done, where, and what conditions they’ll find.
Network Building
Connecting neighbors into a resilient landscape
The relationship work that builds contiguous networks of participating properties — because a single site matters less than a connected landscape that slows fire at scale.
Built With CAL FIRE
Not designed around the system —built into it.
The Enhanced Resilience Site program was developed in direct partnership with CAL FIRE and Napa County Fire, built to their operational specifications, and integrated into the systems first responders actually use.
When a property becomes an Enhanced Resilience Site, it doesn’t just get a plan — it becomes operationally visible in Tablet Command. That’s the difference between documentation and impact. Your gift funds that the critical work needed and the integration.
Sites integrated in first 5 months
Property owners actively in process
The Case for Acting Now
The work is proven. Wildfire will not wait.We must move with urgency and scale with efficiency.
But the properties most likely to become dangerous gaps are already identified. The landowners are willing. What’s needed is the funding to move them through the process.
A gift to the Valley Stewards Fund today accelerates that work — closing gaps that put our entire community at greater risk.
“The only way we can effectively deal with the wildfire risks in the Napa Valley is by working together. Napa Firewise and the Valley Stewards Initiative brings together the support and strategic plan to mount an effective “pro-active” response. Combining with County, State, and Federal resources, private donations are essential to kick start this initiative and fill in the gaps. We are proud to be among the Valley Stewards and encourage others to join us!.”
SHARI & GAREN STAGLING, FOUNDING Valley Stewards Fund DonorS
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Sincerely appreciate the work of Napa Fire Wise and the Napa Valley Stewards Fund.
FireWise has improved and added to the fire break road system on my family ranch., making my family and crew and the greater community safer and reachable during a wildfire.
I was literally in tears viewing these improvements on my beautiful property. You have my eternal gratitude. Thank you for your tremendous efforts to keep our community safer.