June 19, 2025
As summer approaches and Napa Valley’s vineyards grow lush, the specter of wildfire looms.
The memory of Napa’s two most destructive wildfire years — 2017 and 2020 — is fresh, but preparing for future events has become difficult. Many property owners here can no longer access or afford fire insurance, and in April the Trump administration terminated a $34 million grant that the Biden administration had awarded to the county for fire mitigation efforts.
So the Napa Valley community, particularly its vintners, has taken matters into its own hands.
Read full story by Esther Mobley in San Francisco Chronicle