The Month in Numbers: September 2024

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