The Valley fire that destroyed up to 1,000 buildings in Lake County, about 100 miles north of San Francisco, “threatened to scorch the California wine industry at harvest time,” which begins in late summer, reports the New York Times. “Nearly half the nation’s wineries are in California, concentrated in the Napa Valley and Sonoma County …. Many of the workers who help keep Napa Valley’s famous wineries running live in the section of Lake County that was hit by the wildfire, said Michael Dunsford, the vice mayor of Calistoga, who owns a restaurant in town.” The southern portion of Lake County adjoins northern Sonoma and Napa counties.