From Wine Country With Love

Hi, I’m Emma. Along with thousands of others in Napa and Sonoma, I lost my home in a wildfire in 2017. My children were 1 and 3 at the time. It sucked. But it didn’t destroy my life — nowhere close. I created this blog to be a resource I would have wanted but struggled to find at the time: impartial advice in plain English, based on personal experience. I’m not an attorney, nor an insurance agent, just a regular person with life experience to share. I hope you can benefit from these experiences and if nothing else, remember that you are not alone.

This blog is dedicated to victims of the 2025 Los Angeles fires, and fire victims everywhere. Sending love, strength, and a little bit of gallows humor, to you all from wine country.