3 years
- Length in years of most recent drought, which officially ended thanks to a rainy 2023-24.
- Source: County of Marin
15 years
- Number of years out of last 25 California has been in state of drought.
- Source: US Drought Monitor
12 inches
- Estimated sea-level rise of San Francisco Bay by 2050.
- Source: NOAA
$17 billion
- Estimated cost to Marin County to adapt to sea-level rise.
- Source: Marin County civil grand jury
$34 billion
- Estimated cost if Marin County does not adapt.
$20 billion
- Amount of Regional Measure 4, a state affordable housing bond, which was pulled from Nov. 5 ballot due to poor polling.
- Source: Bay Area Housing Finance Authority
$1.37 billion
- Amount of funding Napa, Sonoma and Marin counties would have proportioned had Regional Measure 4 passed.
- Source: Metropolitan Transportation Commission
975
- Number or residents whose personal info was breached in a ransomware attack on the City of St. Helena last May.
- Source: City of St. Helena
5,196
- Population of the City of St. Helena.
- Source: U.S. Census
17
- Number of pickleball courts proposed for new arena at 555 Rohnert Park Expressway.
- Source: City of Rohnert Park
35
- Average age of U.S. pickleball player, down by more than 3 years since 2021.
- Source: Association of Pickleball Players
