District Agricultural Associations, commonly known as “county fairs”, are the community center for many of the RCRC member counties. They provide a venue for activities as diverse as emergency operation centers, including cooling/heating centers, to Quinceanera celebrations.
Increasingly, these facilities struggle to maintain financial viability in the face of diminishing state investments. Many have not been updated in decades by the state, even as the state looks to these facilities when establishing wildfire response centers.
As the focus for these facilities has shifted to their use as centers for emergency response and community resilience, see RCRC’s Community and Economic Development advocacy page for the latest news about county fairs.