Berryessa Highlands Community Meeting & Lunch
2026-05-16 10:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Capell Valley Volunteer Fire Station 14, 1193 Capell Valley Road, Napa
Join the Berryessa Highlands Fire Safe Council to hear from Napa County agencies for updates and important ways to protect your home and neighbhorhood.

Guests & what will be covered:

Supervisor Manfree – Wants to hear from you! Open discussion & updates

OES (O􀆯ice of Emergency Services) – What to do in an emergency

BHFSC & CalFire – WUI Defensible Space; Tips for protecting your home

Community Wildfire Protection Plan – Learn about our CWPP & projects

NBRID Ballot Measure – Important status updates

Steele Canyon Resort – Hear the latest news

Lunch provided after the presentations, courtesy of Amber Manfree,Supervisor of Napa County, District 4

2026 Climate-Friendly Garden Tour
2026-05-17 10:00 - 16:00 | California
Napa Firewise is excited to participate in the 2026 Climate-Friendly Garden Tour on Sunday, May 17 from 10am–4pm.

Hosted by a partnership between Napa Resource Conservation District (RCD), City of Napa Water, and UC Master Gardeners, this self-guided tour showcases private and public gardens throughout Napa featuring beautiful, climate-friendly, and water-wise landscaping.

Napa Firewise will be participating in the day’s educational programming, including a Firewise Landscaping mini-workshop at 10:30am, highlighting ways homeowners can create more wildfire-resilient landscapes while supporting ecological health and water conservation.

Additional workshops throughout the day include:

Avoiding Invasive Plants

Soil Organic Matter and Water Infiltration

Cash for Grass: Customer Experience & Upcoming Changes

Event highlights also include:

Free compost giveaway at Aldea (2310 First St.)

Opportunities to speak with homeowners and gardening experts

Inspiration for climate-smart landscaping practices

Ticket Information:

$5 Adults before May 9

$10 Adults on/after May 9

Free for Kids

Tickets purchased before May 9 will be mailed. Tickets purchased after May 9 can be picked up at Aldea beginning at 10am on May 17.

Each ticket includes a brochure with garden descriptions and a map of tour locations. Garden addresses are only shared with ticket holders on the day of the event to protect homeowner privacy.

Participants may visit gardens in any order throughout the day between 10am–4pm.

Questions, please contact Ashley@NapaRCD.org

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Angwin Fire Safe Council Community Meeting
2026-05-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Howell Mountain Elementary, 525 White Cottage Rd N, Angwin, California, 94508, United States
The Angwin Fire Safe Council and Napa Firewise is hosting a gathering for all Howell Mountain residents on Sunday, May 17 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM. Location is the Howell Mountain Elementary School on White Cottage Road North. Please drop in to hear our County Supervisor and to meet local fire fighting professionals. Come learn and connect about defensible space, property insurance, emergency response, and more.

Speaker Series| Friday Fire Forum: Neighborhood Grazing Cooperatives
2026-05-22 12:00 - 13:00 | California
Join us for the inaugural Friday Fire Forum — Napa Firewise’s new lunchtime speaker series bringing expert voices to the front lines of wildfire preparedness.

Our first Forum features Sarah Keiser of Wild Oat Hollow, who will walk us through how community grazing cooperatives are helping landowners across Northern California take a hands-on, neighbor-powered approach to vegetation management — using sheep and goats to reduce wildfire fuels naturally and sustainably.

Sarah has guided communities in Sonoma, Yolo, Butte, Solano, and surrounding counties through this collaborative model, and brings deep practical knowledge of what it takes to make it work at the neighborhood level.

This is a virtual event, please click here to join us via ZOOM.

About the Speaker

Sarah Keiser is a community organizer and grazing advocate whose consulting practice, The Holistic Herder, blends regenerative land stewardship with real-world vegetation management. Based in Sonoma County, Sarah helps landowners harness the power of grazing ruminants as a long-term, low-impact tool for fire risk reduction.

About Grazing Cooperatives

Grazing cooperatives are community-based collectives that give private landowners the skills, resources, and peer support to use grazing animals for land stewardship — reducing wildfire fuels while building lasting connections between neighbors.

Questions? Reach out to Shari Gardner, Wildfire Preparedness / County Coordinator Shari@napafirewise.org | 707-799-5241

Community Tour: Angwin-PUC Wildfire Fuel Reduction
2026-06-24 10:00 - 11:30 | Pacific Union College, Winning Hall, 130 La Jota Drive, Angwin, California, 94508, United States
Join Napa Communities Firewise Foundation’s Wildfire Preparedness Team, Angwin Fire Safe Council, Pacific Union College, and Napa County to learn about the recent project to remove huge volumes of wildfire fuels and invasive broom. By removing ladder fuels, thinning vegetation, and clearing dead debris, we have been able to collectively enhance resilience for large areas across the Angwin Community.

This community tour will explain how tools and treatment methods were selected, identify and explain challenges, talk about how collaborative efforts made a difference, and what residents can do to implement this type of work in their neighborhoods.

Attendees should wear sturdy closed toes shoes, bring water, and be comfortable walking on uneven terrain.

Please park behind Winning Hall at Pacific Union College, directional signage will help ensure you can find the group for the community tour. Space is limited to 30 individuals, please RSVP.

Circle Oaks Annual Community Picnic
2026-06-27 11:00 - 14:00 | California
If you have not attended the Annual Community Picnic in the Circle Oaks community, now is the time! Join your neighbors for an afternoon of community, connection, and critical NEIGHBORHOOD information. Napa Land Trust, Napa Firewise, CAL FIRE, and local Napa County officials will join us at the entrance of Circle Oaks.

Knoxville Blueridge Community Meeting
2026-07-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Bureau of Reclamation Visitor Center, 5520 Knoxville Road, Napa, California, 94558, United States
Join the Knoxville-Blueridge Fire Safe Council to learn about planned wildfire prevention projects in the area. Community members can share their concerns and input to help develop the Community Wildfire Protection Plan for your neighborhood. Residents will have the chance to contribute feedback and share what they have done to their own homes to help the Council apply for Firewise USA® recognition for the community.

Firewise USA recognition demonstrates that residents have taken measurable steps to reduce wildfire risk through community-wide planning and mitigation, backed by NFPA and state fire agencies. This recognition can improve insurability and may qualify homeowners for insurance discounts or preferred rates with participating carriers.

DMFSC COMMUNITY MEETING
2026-08-20 17:00 - 19:00 | Calistoga Community Center, 1307 Washington Street, Calistoga, California, United States
Please join Diamond Mountain Fire Safe Council and Napa Firewise to provide your ideas and input to help finalize the Diamond Mountain FSC CWPP update!

Light refreshments will be served

The CWPP serves as a framework to identify priority projects to reduce wildfire risk, build wildfire resilience in our neighborhoods and unlock potential funding for ongoing fuel reduction work in our Fire Safe Council.

Our first Diamond Mountain Community Wildfire Protection Plan––CWPP was developed in 2020 collaboratively and in consultation with Napa Firewise, CAL FIRE, Napa Fire and the residents of the DMFSC Community. Now it’s time to complete an update in a guided process led by consultant Carol Rice.

You can see the original CWPP Report here 2020 CWPP for DMFSC, or on the DMFSC website napafirewise.org/fsc/diamond-mountain.

An RSVP is not required, but it would still be helpful. Please email: admin@diamondmountainfiresafe.org
