Point Fire: Wineries on high alert as wildfire burns in Sonoma County

Members of Sonoma County’s wine community are watching anxiously as firefighters battle the Point Fire, which broke out June 16.

The wildfire was first reported at 12:33 p.m. in an area about 12 miles northwest of Healdsburg and west of Geyserville, according to Cal Fire.

Evacuation orders have taken effect throughout a territory southwest of Lake Sonoma and Dry Creek, including a number of wineries in the Dry Creek Valley and Healdsburg, and an additional evacuation warning zone has been set farther south to Mill Creek Road.