In the News
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Facing the Reality of Wildfire Risk
Napa Valley Marketplace Magazine by John Dunbar Napa County remains vulnerable to wildfires even with this reprieve from the drought. The wet winter that replenished our water supply also accelerated vegetation growth, which will provided abundant fuel for wildfires this year. To prevent wildfires with the intensity and scope Napa endured in 2017 and 2020,…
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Calistoga FSC Appeal for Support Answered
As I’m sure you’re aware, the risk of wildfire and its devastating consequences to life, health, property, jobs, the economy and even County revenue is a major concern to our entire County. In Calistoga, many of us have had to evacuate our homes 3 times in the last 5 years, often for as long as…
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Free Residential Chipping Service Open
The Napa County Fire Department free annual fire-hazard debris chipping service opened in May. This service is designed to help residents dispose of hazardous vegetation around residential buildings and driveways to create defensible space and reduce wildfire ignition risk. Learn more and sign up for chipping The chipping service does not have traffic control flaggers to…
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Weekly News Round Up (April 28, 2023)
Vegetation management efforts continue in Napa County St. Helena Star – April 18, 2023 Wildfires have been a reality for generations across California. As the intensity, duration, and impacts of wildfires have increased — damaging and destroying millions of acres across our state — so too have federal, state and local resources dedicated to wildfire…
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Weekly News Round Up (April 14, 2023)
NVV is the largest private donor supporting Napa County’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Money gifted came through the Collective Napa
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Napa Firewise helps make homes safer from wildfires
Cal Fire Battalion Chief JC Greenberg calls Napa Firewise’s Defensible Space and Reflect to Protect programs ‘critical’ for making Napa County safer, as they relaunch with grant funding to boost wildfire resilience and emergency access.
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Firewise Gratitude, Appreciation, and Recognition - Susan Deringer, Silverado Fire Safe Council
Susan assisted with maintaining this designation on an annual basis which promotes the projects to enhance the safety of our community
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Roadmap for Wildfire Resilience
How to Get There from Here In recent years, a surge in catastrophic wildfire events has strained local, state, and federal resources destroying communities, lives and livelihoods. These wildfire events have become more frequent and severe, resulting from more than a century of fuel build-up, past land and fire management practices, fire exclusion, growing populations…
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Napa Firewise, community groups collaborate for strengthened wildfire protection
A new collaborative effort is aimed at helping Napa County protect itself from the devastating wildfires it has seen in years past.