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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Amador County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Amador County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The countywide middle score is 61.9, with scores running from 24.3 in Ione to 79.5 near Volcano.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Amador County\n\nAmador County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Amador County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Amador County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The countywide middle score is 61.9, with scores running from 24.3 in Ione to 79.5 near Volcano.\n\n[Score my Amador County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nAmador County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.\n\nAt a glance\n\n## Half of Amador County scores _High_ or worse\n\nWe scored 157 points across Amador County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 13% of them come out Very High, while 1% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n13%\n\n73%\n\n14%\n\n**Very High** 13% · 20 of 157 points **High** 73% · 114 of 157 points **Moderate** 14% · 22 of 157 points **Low** 1% · 1 of 157 points\n\nSafest end we measured 24.3 near Ione · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 61.9 High — half of Amador County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 79.5 near Volcano · Very High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively High FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 98.1 / 100\n\n$14.1M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High\n\n1.08% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 2.56%\n\n5.86 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 98% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Amador County: all-hazards risk Relatively Low · social vulnerability Relatively Moderate · community resilience Relatively Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0106.\n\nSources: FEMA National Risk Index 1.20.0 (Dec 2025), county record · USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0, mean of the grid cells inside the county. Both describe the county as a whole, never an address in it.\n\nWhat does your Amador County address score?\n\nA county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nLocal context\n\n## What the data says about _Amador County_\n\nMost scored locations fall in the High tier: 114 locations are High, compared with 20 in Very High. That means high exposure is common in the county, but it is not uniform.\n\nSince 1984, 37,534 acres have burned in the county, and that is 9.7% of the county. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates countywide wildfire risk as Relatively High.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nThe county fire record includes both older and newer major fires. In the county stats, the largest listed fire is Power (2004) at 16,983 acres. The most recent large fire is Electra (2022), at 4,470 acres.\n\nSome major fires tied to Amador County extended beyond county lines. Caldor (2021) burned 221,784 acres and is marked as partly in the county, and Butte (2015) burned 70,847 acres and is also marked partly in the county.\n\nFire perimeters have been mapped 94 times in Amador County since 1984. That history is part of why wildfire risk varies so much from one part of the county to another.\n\n![Caldor Fire (2021) in Amador County, California - The Caldor Fire burned more than 220,000 acres in El Dorado, Amador, and Alpine counties in California in 2021. It destroyed more ](/images/wildfire-risk/amador-county/photos/caldor-fire-on-2021-09-11.webp)\n\n**Caldor Fire, 2021** — Amador County. Photo: National Interagency Fire Center · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caldor_Fire_on_2021-09-11.jpg)\n\n![Butte Fire (2015) in Amador County, California - The original finding aid described this as: Date Taken: 2015-10-07 01:24:20 UTC Photographer name: Adam DuBrowa City/State: McClel](/images/wildfire-risk/amador-county/photos/calaveras-enterprise-reporter-travis-traborek-gets-a-look-at.webp)\n\n**Butte Fire, 2015** — Amador County. Photo: Department of Homeland Security. Federal Emergency Management Agency. Public Affairs Division. 3/1/2003 · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Calaveras_Enterprise_reporter_Travis_Traborek_gets_a_look_at_the_first_Modular_Housing_Units_to_arrive_in_the_staging_area_at_McClellan_Airbase._FEMA_Public_Information_Officer_Vict_-_DPLA_-_3a7cec3eeedf3dd6e2a3125a0ab92082.JPG)\n\n94 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n37,534 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n9.7% of the county's area, as a share of 1,558.4 km²\n\nElectra 2022 most recent large fire on record\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020s \n\nFire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.\n\nNamed fires on record\n\n-   **Rancheria Fire**196134,104 acres\n-   **Power Fire**200416,983 acres\n-   **Caldor Fire**2021221,784 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Butte Fire**201570,847 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Electra Fire**20224,470 acres\n-   **Pi Pi-Indian Digging Fire**19248,948 acres\n-   **Quarry Fire**197620,870 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Van Vleck Fire**19682,665 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Power 2004. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records.\n\nCommunities\n\n## Where in the county you are _matters most_\n\nCommunity-level patterns are mixed rather than one-size-fits-all. Ione’s middle score is 57.0, while Jackson’s is 62.6.\n\nPlymouth (61.9), Amador City (61.8), and Willow Springs (61.2) sit in a fairly tight band, while Sutter Creek is lower at 49.5 and Volcano is higher at 66.3.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index county ratings are countywide, not neighborhood-by-neighborhood. For Amador County, FEMA rates both wildfire risk and expected annual loss as Relatively High.\n\nVolcano village\n\n66.3 _High_\n\nJackson town · 4,405 people\n\n62.6 _High_\n\nPlymouth village · 1,070 people\n\n61.9 _High_\n\nAmador City village · 218 people\n\n61.8 _High_\n\nWillow Springs village\n\n61.2 _High_\n\nIone town · 7,649 people\n\n57 _High_\n\nSutter Creek village · 2,776 people\n\n49.5 _Moderate_\n\nThe score is the median of the sampled points nearest that community — a community-scale indicator, not a score for any individual property in it. Population comes from the community's own record where the source carries one.\n\nTerrain & fuels\n\n## Terrain, vegetation and _fuels_\n\nTerrain contributes differently by location. Terrain scores run from 20.0 near Ione up to 65.0 in Jackson, showing a clear shift in how landform is associated with wildfire risk from one area to another.\n\nVegetation and fuels vary even more. Scores range from 5.0 near Ione to 80.0 in Volcano, with a county middle value of 67.5.\n\nHazard-zone scoring is generally elevated in this county, with a middle value of 84.5 and a high of 92.1 near Volcano. That is a separate factor from fire weather, and it adds to local differences in overall wildfire risk.\n\n40 median terrain score (max 65 near Jackson)\n\n67.5 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Volcano)\n\n![LANDFIRE existing vegetation type map of Amador County, California, with the county boundary outlined](/images/wildfire-risk/amador-county/generated/amador-county-fuels.webp)\n\nLANDFIRE existing vegetation type across Amador County — the same fuel data that feeds the vegetation layer of a Satelife property report.\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Amador County_\n\nFire weather was measured across the county, and it varies less than terrain or fuels. Scores run from 53.5 near Ione to 63.1 in Willow Springs, with a middle value of 54.4.\n\nA separate national model from the U.S. Forest Service reports a mean annual burn probability of 1.08%, with a 90th-percentile cell value of 2.56%. It also indicates that 97.7% of the county can burn.\n\n53.5 lowest fire-weather score — near Ione\n\n63.1 highest fire-weather score — near Willow Springs\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk is not the same across Amador County. The lowest scored location is Ione at 24.3, while the highest scored location is near Volcano at 79.5.\n\nAmong named communities, Volcano has a higher middle score (66.3) than Sutter Creek (49.5). Jackson is also on the higher side at 62.6.\n\nAcross all scored locations, High is the most common tier, with 114 locations. Very High appears too, with 20 locations, so some areas are meaningfully more exposed than the county middle.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Amador County, on the same 0–100 scale. A long bar is a part of the risk that depends on where you are; a short one is the same almost everywhere.\n\nTerrain\n\n20–65 highest near Jackson\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5–80 highest near Volcano\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–92.1 highest near Volcano\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Jackson\n\nFire weather\n\n53.5–63.1 highest near Willow Springs\n\nOverall score\n\n24.3–79.5 highest near Volcano\n\nThe tick on each bar is the middle value. Tier boundaries — Moderate at 25, High at 50, Very High at 75 — are the faint lines behind them.\n\nShow every number behind these bars\n\nLayer\n\nMin\n\nMedian\n\nMax\n\nLowest place\n\nHighest place\n\nPoints\n\nTerrain\n\n20\n\n40\n\n65\n\nnear Ione\n\nJackson\n\n157\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5\n\n67.5\n\n80\n\nnear Ione\n\nVolcano\n\n157\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n84.5\n\n92.1\n\nIone\n\nnear Volcano\n\n157\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n40\n\n95\n\nIone\n\nJackson\n\n157\n\nFire weather\n\n53.5\n\n54.4\n\n63.1\n\nnear Ione\n\nWillow Springs\n\n157\n\nComposite\n\n24.3\n\n61.9\n\n79.5\n\nIone\n\nnear Volcano\n\n157\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **1.08%** (90th percentile cell: **2.56%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **5.86 ft**. **98%** of the 13,780 grid cells inside the county carry burnable fuel at all.\n\nSource: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).\n\nCAL FIRE has no mapped Fire Hazard Severity Zone at **32** of the 157 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **32** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead.\n\n157 sample points on a ~2.3 km grid, plus one at the centre of each community, weighted with the Satelife county profile v1 · median layer coverage 100%. Scores are 0–100 and comparable within the county, not across states.\n\nFor a property\n\n## What a county range means for _one address_\n\nProperty-specific building features were not measured at all in this countywide scoring.\n\nWhat is measured can still help frame a property conversation: the local overall tier at that location, plus nearby patterns in terrain, fuels, hazard-zone scores, and fire history. For example, fire-history scores range from 5.0 in Ione to 95.0 in Jackson.\n\nHazard-zone scores are high in many scored locations, with a middle value of 84.5 and a maximum of 92.1 near Volcano. For a specific home, the address-level result is the best way to place that property within the county pattern.\n\nAcross 157 sampled points in Amador County, the score runs from 24.3 to 79.5 — two neighbouring parcels can sit in different tiers. A county number is the middle of that spread; it says nothing about which end yours is at.\n\nFind out where your Amador County parcel sits\n\nSlope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nCoverage\n\n## ZIP codes we cover in Amador County\n\nEvery one of the 26 ZIP areas that touch Amador County — we run address-level reports in all of them. They are grouped by the median score of the points we sampled inside each, which is a neighbourhood-scale indicator and **not** a score for any property: two homes in the same ZIP routinely land in different tiers.\n\n**Very High** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [95689 Volcano77](/wildfire-risk/zip/95689/)\n\n**High** 10 ZIPs\n\n-   [95245 Jackson70](/wildfire-risk/zip/95245/)\n-   [95666 Volcano64](/wildfire-risk/zip/95666/)\n-   [95629 Volcano64](/wildfire-risk/zip/95629/)\n-   [95665 Volcano63](/wildfire-risk/zip/95665/)\n-   [95642 Jackson62](/wildfire-risk/zip/95642/)\n-   [95601 Amador City60](/wildfire-risk/zip/95601/)\n-   [95685 Sutter Creek60](/wildfire-risk/zip/95685/)\n-   [95640 Ione57](/wildfire-risk/zip/95640/)\n-   [95669 Plymouth56](/wildfire-risk/zip/95669/)\n-   [95699 Amador City55](/wildfire-risk/zip/95699/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 15 ZIPs\n\n[95223](/wildfire-risk/zip/95223/) · [95226 Ione](/wildfire-risk/zip/95226/) · [95227 Ione](/wildfire-risk/zip/95227/) · [95252 Jackson](/wildfire-risk/zip/95252/) · [95254 Ione](/wildfire-risk/zip/95254/) · [95255 Volcano](/wildfire-risk/zip/95255/) · [95623 Plymouth](/wildfire-risk/zip/95623/) · [95632 Ione](/wildfire-risk/zip/95632/) · [95638 Ione](/wildfire-risk/zip/95638/) · [95646](/wildfire-risk/zip/95646/) · [95675 Plymouth](/wildfire-risk/zip/95675/) · [95682 Plymouth](/wildfire-risk/zip/95682/) · [95684 Volcano](/wildfire-risk/zip/95684/) · [95726 Volcano](/wildfire-risk/zip/95726/) · [96155](/wildfire-risk/zip/96155/)\n\nGrouped from 11 of 26 ZIP areas — the rest had no sample point fall inside them. The community shown is the nearest mapped place to the ZIP's centre.\n\nZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## Amador County wildfire risk _in context_\n\n[California wildfire risk The statewide picture and every county page we publish](/wildfire-risk/california/) [Wildfire risk by state Every state and county we cover](/wildfire-risk/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Create a wildfire evacuation plan Zones, egress routes, refuge areas](/wildfire-evacuation-plan/) [Run a report for a Amador County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Amador County wildfire risk_\n\nIs wildfire risk the same everywhere in Amador County?\n\nNo. In the places scored, values run from 24.3 in Ione to 79.5 near Volcano, and most locations fall in the High tier.\n\nHow much of Amador County has burned in recent decades?\n\nSince 1984, 37,534 acres have burned, which equals 9.7% of the county.\n\nWhat are the key recent or major fires to know?\n\nIn county stats, the largest listed fire is Power (2004), 16,983 acres. The most recent large fire is Electra (2022), 4,470 acres. Caldor (2021), 221,784 acres, is marked as partly in the county.\n\nDoes this page include fire weather information?\n\nYes. Fire-weather scores were measured across the county, from 53.5 near Ione to 63.1 in Willow Springs.\n\nDoes this page measure home construction details like roof type?\n\nNo. Property-specific building features were not measured at all in this countywide scoring.\n\nThis page is generated from a Amador County data pack assembled on 2026-08-18 (pack v1.0). Scores are sampled across the county, not measured at any individual address, and are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement. Data versions: fema\\_nri 1.20.0 (Dec 2025) · landfire per adapter · nifc\\_history All Years View · wfigs current · wrc v2.0 (2024) · zcta Census 2020.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA county range shows the spread. An address-level Satelife report shows where in that spread your property actually sits — PDF, per-layer score, and a prioritized mitigation plan.\n\n[Start with your address →](/#cta)\n\n[![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf)\n\n© 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved.\n\nSatelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice."
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