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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Sacramento County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Sacramento County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The middle score is 22.2, with lower-scoring places down at 13.4 and higher-scoring places up to 65.6.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Sacramento County\n\nSacramento County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Sacramento County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Sacramento County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The middle score is 22.2, with lower-scoring places down at 13.4 and higher-scoring places up to 65.6.\n\n[Score my Sacramento County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nSacramento 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 Sacramento County scores _Low_ or worse\n\nWe scored 160 points across Sacramento County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 9% of them come out High, while 58% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n33%\n\n58%\n\n**High** 9% · 15 of 160 points **Moderate** 33% · 52 of 160 points **Low** 58% · 93 of 160 points\n\nSafest end we measured 13.4 near Elk Grove · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 22.2 Low — half of Sacramento County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 65.6 near Rancho Murieta · 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 95.9 / 100\n\n$4.8M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Moderate\n\n0.26% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 0.55%\n\n2.28 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 68% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Sacramento County: all-hazards risk Relatively High · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively Moderate · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0034.\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 Sacramento 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 _Sacramento County_\n\nMost scored locations fall in the Low tier, with 93 points, followed by 52 in Moderate. That pattern means lower-to-moderate risk is more common than High in the county’s scored locations.\n\nFor county-wide context, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Sacramento County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Moderate, and its all-hazards risk as Relatively High.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 11,278 acres have burned in Sacramento County fire perimeters, and that is 1.8% of the county. The county has had 41 recorded fire perimeters in that period.\n\nLatrobe (2017) is listed as both the largest fire and the most recent large fire in the county summary here, at 1,268 acres.\n\nOther named fires in the records include Meiss (1981) at 14,126 acres and Scott (1996) at 8,828 acres, with Scott marked as partly in the county.\n\n41 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n11,278 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n1.8% of the county's area, as a share of 2,560.3 km²\n\nLatrobe 2017 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-   **Meiss Fire**198114,126 acres\n-   **Scott Fire**19968,828 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Latrobe Fire**20171,268 acres\n-   **Clay Fire**2020726 acres\n-   **Meiss Fire**2020506 acres\n-   **Smud #1 Fire**19921,179 acres\n-   **Scott Fire**2004609 acres\n-   **Chance Ranch Vmp Fire**2006560 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Latrobe 2017. 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\nAmong the communities shown, Rancho Murieta stands out with a median wildfire risk score of 50.9. Sacramento and Citrus Heights are both at 13.4.\n\nSeveral other communities sit in the lower-to-mid range: Elk Grove is 20.8, Folsom is 21.1, and Rancho Cordova is 25.1. That spread shows why neighborhood-level location inside the county matters for risk context.\n\nRancho Murieta village\n\n50.9 _High_\n\nRancho Cordova town · 59,921 people\n\n25.1 _Moderate_\n\nGalt town · 23,396 people\n\n21.7 _Low_\n\nFolsom city · 66,123 people\n\n21.1 _Low_\n\nElk Grove city · 166,913 people\n\n20.8 _Low_\n\nWalnut Grove village\n\n19.9 _Low_\n\nRio Linda village\n\n18.9 _Low_\n\nIsleton village · 803 people\n\n16.4 _Low_\n\nSacramento city · 490,712 people\n\n13.4 _Low_\n\nCitrus Heights town · 88,890 people\n\n13.4 _Low_\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-related scores run from 5.0 near Isleton to 40.0 in Rancho Murieta, with a middle value of 20.0. In plain terms, slope and topography contribute more in some inland foothill-edge areas than in flatter Delta-side locations.\n\nVegetation and fuels range from 20.0 in Elk Grove to 73.1 in Rancho Murieta, with a middle value of 43.8. This is associated with stronger differences in burnable cover between neighborhoods and outskirts.\n\nHazard-zone scores are often at 10.0, but reach 70.0 near Rancho Murieta. Fire-history scores are commonly 5.0, with a high of 95.0 near Isleton.\n\n20 median terrain score (max 40 near Rancho Murieta)\n\n43.8 median vegetation & fuels score (max 73.1 near Rancho Murieta)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Sacramento County_\n\nFire weather could not be measured across the county. It was measured at only 7 of 160 scored points, at Isleton, where the score is 69.0.\n\nSeparately from weather, the modeled burn-probability product shows a mean annual burn probability of 0.26 and a 90th-percentile cell value of 0.55.\n\nFire weather was measured at 7 of the 160 sampled points (near Isleton, 69) — too few to publish as a county range, so no high/low is shown here.\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk is not uniform across Sacramento County. The highest scored location is in Rancho Murieta at 65.6, while the lowest scored location is in Elk Grove at 13.4.\n\nBy tier counts, Low (93 points) and Moderate (52 points) are the most common. High appears at 15 points, and no scored points are in Very High.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Sacramento 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\n5–40 highest near Rancho Murieta\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–73.1 highest near Rancho Murieta\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–70 highest near Rancho Murieta\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Isleton\n\nFire weather\n\n69 at one point highest near Isleton\n\nOverall score\n\n13.4–65.6 highest near Rancho Murieta\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\n5\n\n20\n\n40\n\nnear Isleton\n\nRancho Murieta\n\n160\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n43.8\n\n73.1\n\nElk Grove\n\nRancho Murieta\n\n160\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n10\n\n70\n\nnear Isleton\n\nnear Rancho Murieta\n\n160\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n5\n\n95\n\nnear Isleton\n\nnear Isleton\n\n160\n\nFire weather\\*\n\n—\n\n—\n\n69\n\n—\n\nIsleton\n\n7\n\nComposite\n\n13.4\n\n22.2\n\n65.6\n\nElk Grove\n\nRancho Murieta\n\n160\n\n\\*Fire weather returned a reading at only 7 of the 160 sampled points. The one value measured is shown under Max with the place beside it; there is no county range to report, so the other columns are left blank.\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.26%** (90th percentile cell: **0.55%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **2.28 ft**. **68%** of the 17,717 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 **2** of the 160 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **2** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead.\n\n160 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 90%. 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 home features were not measured at all in this county view.\n\nWhat this page does provide is location-based wildfire risk around a home: nearby place scores, local terrain and fuels context, and community-level medians. For example, the typical score shown for Rancho Murieta is 50.9 versus 13.4 in Sacramento.\n\nAcross 160 sampled points in Sacramento County, the score runs from 13.4 to 65.6 — 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 Sacramento 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 Sacramento County\n\nEvery one of the 72 ZIP areas that touch Sacramento 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** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [95683 Rancho Murieta55](/wildfire-risk/zip/95683/)\n\n**Moderate** 9 ZIPs\n\n-   [95626 Rio Linda40](/wildfire-risk/zip/95626/)\n-   [95843 Citrus Heights39](/wildfire-risk/zip/95843/)\n-   [95742 Rancho Cordova38](/wildfire-risk/zip/95742/)\n-   [95638 Rancho Murieta37](/wildfire-risk/zip/95638/)\n-   [95639 Elk Grove34](/wildfire-risk/zip/95639/)\n-   [95655 Rancho Cordova32](/wildfire-risk/zip/95655/)\n-   [95830 Rancho Cordova30](/wildfire-risk/zip/95830/)\n-   [95757 Elk Grove28](/wildfire-risk/zip/95757/)\n-   [95693 Elk Grove26](/wildfire-risk/zip/95693/)\n\n**Low** 32 ZIPs\n\n-   [95673 Rio Linda25](/wildfire-risk/zip/95673/)\n-   [94571 Isleton23](/wildfire-risk/zip/94571/)\n-   [95829 Elk Grove23](/wildfire-risk/zip/95829/)\n-   [95624 Elk Grove22](/wildfire-risk/zip/95624/)\n-   [95632 Galt22](/wildfire-risk/zip/95632/)\n-   [95815 Sacramento20](/wildfire-risk/zip/95815/)\n-   [95615 Walnut Grove19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95615/)\n-   [95837 Rio Linda19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95837/)\n-   [95670 Rancho Cordova18](/wildfire-risk/zip/95670/)\n-   [95630 Folsom18](/wildfire-risk/zip/95630/)\n-   [95690 Walnut Grove18](/wildfire-risk/zip/95690/)\n-   [95838 Rio Linda17](/wildfire-risk/zip/95838/)\n-   [95842 Citrus Heights17](/wildfire-risk/zip/95842/)\n-   [95641 Isleton16](/wildfire-risk/zip/95641/)\n-   [95834 Sacramento16](/wildfire-risk/zip/95834/)\n-   [95822 Sacramento15](/wildfire-risk/zip/95822/)\n-   [95608 Rancho Cordova13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95608/)\n-   [95610 Citrus Heights13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95610/)\n-   [95628 Citrus Heights13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95628/)\n-   [95758 Elk Grove13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95758/)\n-   [95814 Sacramento13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95814/)\n-   [95816 Sacramento13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95816/)\n-   [95817 Sacramento13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95817/)\n-   [95820 Sacramento13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95820/)\n-   [95821 Rancho Cordova13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95821/)\n-   [95823 Elk Grove13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95823/)\n-   [95826 Rancho Cordova13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95826/)\n-   [95827 Rancho Cordova13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95827/)\n-   [95828 Elk Grove13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95828/)\n-   [95833 Sacramento13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95833/)\n-   [95835 Rio Linda13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95835/)\n-   [95864 Rancho Cordova13](/wildfire-risk/zip/95864/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 30 ZIPs\n\n[94585 Isleton](/wildfire-risk/zip/94585/) · [95219 Isleton](/wildfire-risk/zip/95219/) · [95220 Galt](/wildfire-risk/zip/95220/) · [95242 Galt](/wildfire-risk/zip/95242/) · [95605 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95605/) · [95612 Walnut Grove](/wildfire-risk/zip/95612/) · [95621 Citrus Heights](/wildfire-risk/zip/95621/) · [95640 Rancho Murieta](/wildfire-risk/zip/95640/) · [95652 Rio Linda](/wildfire-risk/zip/95652/) · [95659 Rio Linda](/wildfire-risk/zip/95659/) · [95660 Rio Linda](/wildfire-risk/zip/95660/) · [95662 Folsom](/wildfire-risk/zip/95662/) · [95664 Folsom](/wildfire-risk/zip/95664/) · [95669 Rancho Murieta](/wildfire-risk/zip/95669/) · [95671 Folsom](/wildfire-risk/zip/95671/) · [95678 Citrus Heights](/wildfire-risk/zip/95678/) · [95680 Walnut Grove](/wildfire-risk/zip/95680/) · [95682 Rancho Murieta](/wildfire-risk/zip/95682/) · [95686 Walnut Grove](/wildfire-risk/zip/95686/) · [95691 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95691/) · [95746 Folsom](/wildfire-risk/zip/95746/) · [95762 Folsom](/wildfire-risk/zip/95762/) · [95811 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95811/) · [95818 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95818/) · [95819 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95819/) · [95824 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95824/) · [95825 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95825/) · [95831 Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95831/) · [95832 Elk Grove](/wildfire-risk/zip/95832/) · [95841 Citrus Heights](/wildfire-risk/zip/95841/)\n\nGrouped from 42 of 72 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## Sacramento 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 Sacramento County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Sacramento County wildfire risk_\n\nIs wildfire risk the same everywhere in Sacramento County?\n\nNo. Scores vary a lot by location, from 13.4 in lower-risk areas up to 65.6 in higher-risk areas such as Rancho Murieta.\n\nWhat are the main fire history takeaways for the county?\n\nSince 1984, 11,278 acres have burned within recorded perimeters, which is 1.8% of the county, across 41 perimeters.\n\nWhat was the most recent large fire?\n\nLatrobe (2017) is the most recent large fire listed in the county summary here, and it is also listed as the largest.\n\nDo you have county-wide fire weather scores?\n\nNo. Fire weather was only measured at a handful of points, specifically at Isleton (69.0), so it could not be measured across the county.\n\nHow does FEMA rate wildfire risk for Sacramento County?\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates the county’s wildfire risk as Relatively Moderate.\n\nThis page is generated from a Sacramento 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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