The fire, which has destroyed several wineries in Napa Valley is 2% contained, according to CalFire.
Among the wineries involved:
- Fairwinds Estate Winery – buildings appear to have been leveled
- Hourglass Winery – the winery facility and guest house were demolished
- Hunnicutt Wines – a house on the property used for offices and the winery’s crush pad were devastated; the winery building itself is still standing
- Newton Vineyard – LVMH-owned winery has been “significantly impacted”
- Tofanelli Vineyards – a 120-year-old barn and family home burned
- Heitz Cellar-owned Burgess Cellars also suffered damage.
- Foley Family Wines’ Merus winery – one of the production out-buildings was destroyed along with one of the residences on the property; the winery itself suffered some damage but is still intact.
- Castello di Amorosa -offices, farmhouse, a 145,000-square-foot warehouse holding 10,00 bottles of wine and fermentation tanks destroyed; main manor survived
- Chateau Boswell Winery – destroyed
- Tofanelli Family Vineyard – 100-year-old barn and home destroyed
The Glass Fire comes ahead of the anniversary of a 2017 fire that killed 22 people.
Climate scientists say the burning of coal, oil and gas have made California much drier, so trees and other plants are more flammable. Some of the land hasn’t burned for a century, while crews are using old containment lines to fight the current fire.