Here's how the celebrity-studded enclave of Montecito braces for wildfire season.
Workers clear mud from the parking garage at the Montecito Inn following a mudslide on Jan. 12, 2018, in Montecito. While the hotel survived, many historic structures were buried and 23 lives were lost.As for how much it actually costs the luminaries who call Montecito home, McDermut says that can “change day-to-day.” Meghan and Harry’s house, for example, cost $14.7 million when the Sussexes bought it in June 2020 from Russian oligarch Sergey Grishin.
National fire officials seem to think it’s both, referring to Montecito as being in the heart of a “Goldilocks zone,” a term for a spot that can create perfect opportunities for fire and flood and other climate change-caused disasters to comingle and make life untenable. Humboldt County firefighters Lonnie Risling, left, and Jimmy McHaffie, right, spray down smoldering fire underneath the rubble of a home that was destroyed by the Thomas Fire, on Dec. 17, 2017, in Montecito.Cal Fire officials say they’re looking ahead to this summer and beyond, specifically encouraging areas like Montecito to remain as ready as they can be.
“We don’t necessarily have a wait-and-see attitude,” says Isaac Sanchez, battalion chief of communications for Cal Fire. “We can’t afford to take a wait-and-see attitude. We have to be prepared for the worst-case scenario.”
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