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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Mono County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Mono County varies a lot by location. Across the places we scored, values run from 28.0 near Lee Vining to 76.9 in Walker, with a middle value of 52.5.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Mono County\n\nMono County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Mono County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Mono County varies a lot by location. Across the places we scored, values run from 28.0 near Lee Vining to 76.9 in Walker, with a middle value of 52.5.\n\n[Score my Mono County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nMono 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 Mono County scores _High_ or worse\n\nWe scored 158 points across Mono County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 1% of them come out Very High, while 41% are Moderate. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n58%\n\n41%\n\n**Very High** 1% · 2 of 158 points **High** 58% · 92 of 158 points **Moderate** 41% · 64 of 158 points\n\nSafest end we measured 28 near Lee Vining · Moderate\n\nMiddle of the county 52.5 High — half of Mono County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 76.9 near Walker · Very High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively Moderate FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 91.2 / 100\n\n$1.8M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Moderate\n\n0.41% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 1.03%\n\n6.35 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 97% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Mono County: all-hazards risk Relatively Low · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively High · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0040.\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 Mono 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 _Mono County_\n\nMost scored locations fall in the High tier. The count is 92 High, 64 Moderate, and 2 Very High, with no Low locations in the scored set.\n\nCounty history also shows meaningful fire activity: 188,095 acres have burned since 1984, which is 9.4% of the county.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, Mono County has had 121 recorded fire perimeters. In that period, 188,095 acres burned (9.4% of county area).\n\nThe largest fire named in the county fire record here is Cannon (2002) at 26,684 acres. The most recent large fire is Pack (2025).\n\nOther major fires in or affecting the county include Slink (2020), listed at 26,752 acres and partly in the county, and Mountain View (2020) at 20,385 acres.\n\n![Slink Fire (2020) in Mono County, California - Wildland firefighters for the Slink Fire at morning briefing at Antelope Valley Fire Department in Coleville, California. The Slin](/images/wildfire-risk/mono-county/photos/20200902-fs-humboldt-toiyabe-nf-cpet5a8479-50298182711.webp)\n\n**Slink Fire, 2020** — Mono County. Photo: Intermountain Region US Forest Service · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20200902_FS-Humboldt-Toiyabe_NF-CPET5A8479_\\(50298182711\\).jpg)\n\n121 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n188,095 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n9.4% of the county's area, as a share of 8,063.8 km²\n\nPack 2025 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-   **Mountain View Fire**202020,385 acres\n-   **Slink Fire**202026,752 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Cannon Fire**200226,684 acres\n-   **Indian Fire**201212,575 acres\n-   **Slinkard Fire**20179,096 acres\n-   **Boot Fire**20186,974 acres\n-   **Springs Fire**20196,615 acres\n-   **Round Fire**20156,538 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Cannon 2002. 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\nMammoth Lakes is the largest community listed (population 8,234), and its middle wildfire-risk score is 55.1. Several smaller communities score somewhat higher, including Crowley Lake at 58.6 and Walker at 60.2.\n\nJune Lake (57.6), Benton (57.4), and Lee Vining (56.9) are in a similar range. Bridgeport is lower at 53.4.\n\nChalfant stands out on the lower end among listed communities at 44.0. So within one county, community-level wildfire risk can still differ noticeably.\n\nWalker village · 721 people\n\n60.2 _High_\n\nCrowley Lake village · 980 people\n\n58.6 _High_\n\nJune Lake village · 611 people\n\n57.6 _High_\n\nBenton village · 279 people\n\n57.4 _High_\n\nLee Vining village · 217 people\n\n56.9 _High_\n\nMammoth Lakes town · 8,234 people\n\n55.1 _High_\n\nBridgeport village\n\n53.4 _High_\n\nChalfant village · 660 people\n\n44 _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 is a meaningful part of the county pattern. Terrain scores range from 30.0 in Crowley Lake to 65.0 in Chalfant, with a middle value of 55.0.\n\nVegetation and fuels are generally elevated in the scored locations. The middle score is 75.8, with the high end at 80.0 near Chalfant and a low of 5.0 in Lee Vining.\n\nHazard-zone scores also vary sharply by place, from 10.0 in Crowley Lake up to 90.0 in Walker. That contributes to why local wildfire risk can change quickly across the county.\n\n55 median terrain score (max 65 near Chalfant)\n\n75.8 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Chalfant)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Mono County_\n\nFire-weather scores were measured across the county and are fairly tight compared with other factors. They run from 54.9 in Lee Vining to 65.5 near Benton, with a middle value of 55.1.\n\nA separate national model estimates mean annual burn probability at 0.41%, with a 90th-percentile cell value of 1.03%. This is a burn-probability measure, not a fire-weather score.\n\n54.9 lowest fire-weather score — near Lee Vining\n\n65.5 highest fire-weather score — near Benton\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk is not uniform from one part of Mono County to another. The highest scored location is Walker at 76.9, while the lowest is near Lee Vining at 28.0.\n\nThat spread shows up in town-level patterns too. Walker has a community middle score of 60.2, while Chalfant is lower at 44.0.\n\nEven where countywide ratings look moderate, local differences are large enough that nearby communities can sit in different risk tiers.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Mono 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\n30–65 highest near Chalfant\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5–80 highest near Chalfant\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–90 highest near Walker\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Mammoth Lakes\n\nFire weather\n\n54.9–65.5 highest near Benton\n\nOverall score\n\n28–76.9 highest near Walker\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\n30\n\n55\n\n65\n\nCrowley Lake\n\nChalfant\n\n158\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5\n\n75.8\n\n80\n\nLee Vining\n\nnear Chalfant\n\n158\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n46.6\n\n90\n\nCrowley Lake\n\nWalker\n\n158\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n20\n\n95\n\nCrowley Lake\n\nMammoth Lakes\n\n158\n\nFire weather\n\n54.9\n\n55.1\n\n65.5\n\nLee Vining\n\nnear Benton\n\n158\n\nComposite\n\n28\n\n52.5\n\n76.9\n\nnear Lee Vining\n\nWalker\n\n158\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.41%** (90th percentile cell: **1.03%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **6.35 ft**. **97%** of the 14,613 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 **128** of the 158 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **111** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 17 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low.\n\n158 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\nFor countywide context, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Mono County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Moderate and wildfire expected annual loss as Relatively Moderate. FEMA also rates the county’s all-hazards risk as Relatively Low.\n\nAt the same time, county-level ratings do not erase local variation. In the scored locations, there are 92 High points and 2 Very High points, so property-level and neighborhood-level differences matter in Mono County.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index also rates social vulnerability as Relatively Low and community resilience as Relatively High. Those are countywide ratings, not ratings for a specific town or property.\n\nAcross 158 sampled points in Mono County, the score runs from 28 to 76.9 — 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 Mono 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 Mono County\n\nEvery one of the 16 ZIP areas that touch Mono 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**High** 6 ZIPs\n\n-   [96107 Walker63](/wildfire-risk/zip/96107/)\n-   [93529 June Lake60](/wildfire-risk/zip/93529/)\n-   [93546 Crowley Lake58](/wildfire-risk/zip/93546/)\n-   [93517 Bridgeport57](/wildfire-risk/zip/93517/)\n-   [93512 Benton56](/wildfire-risk/zip/93512/)\n-   [93541 Lee Vining51](/wildfire-risk/zip/93541/)\n\n**Moderate** 2 ZIPs\n\n-   [89010 Benton46](/wildfire-risk/zip/89010/)\n-   [93514 Chalfant46](/wildfire-risk/zip/93514/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 8 ZIPs\n\n[89410 Walker](/wildfire-risk/zip/89410/) · [89444 Walker](/wildfire-risk/zip/89444/) · [93634](/wildfire-risk/zip/93634/) · [95223 Walker](/wildfire-risk/zip/95223/) · [95321](/wildfire-risk/zip/95321/) · [95364](/wildfire-risk/zip/95364/) · [95389 June Lake](/wildfire-risk/zip/95389/) · [96133 Walker](/wildfire-risk/zip/96133/)\n\nGrouped from 8 of 16 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## Mono 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 Mono County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Mono County wildfire risk_\n\nWhat is the most recent large fire for Mono County?\n\nThe most recent large fire listed for Mono County is Pack (2025).\n\nWhat is the largest fire named in this county record?\n\nCannon (2002) is the largest named fire in the record here, at 26,684 acres.\n\nDoes wildfire risk look the same across Mono County?\n\nNo. The scored locations range from 28.0 near Lee Vining to 76.9 in Walker, so risk changes by location.\n\nDid fire weather get measured in Mono County?\n\nYes. Fire-weather scores were measured in the county, ranging from 54.9 (Lee Vining) to 65.5 (near Benton).\n\nHow much of Mono County has burned since 1984?\n\n188,095 acres have burned since 1984, equal to 9.4% of the county.\n\nThis page is generated from a Mono County data pack assembled on 2026-08-19 (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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