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.
We 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.
FEMA NRI also rates Sacramento County: all-hazards risk Relatively High · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively Moderate · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0034.
Sources: 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.
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Most 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.
For 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.
Since 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.
Latrobe (2017) is listed as both the largest fire and the most recent large fire in the county summary here, at 1,268 acres.
Other 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.
Fire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size.
Perimeter 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.
Among 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.
Several 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.
The 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.
Terrain-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.
Vegetation 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.
Hazard-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.
Fire 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.
Separately 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.
Fire 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.
Risk 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.
By 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.
Each 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.
The 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.
| Layer | Min | Median | Max | Lowest place | Highest place | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrain | 5 | 20 | 40 | near Isleton | Rancho Murieta | 160 |
| Vegetation & fuels | 20 | 43.8 | 73.1 | Elk Grove | Rancho Murieta | 160 |
| Hazard zone | 10 | 10 | 70 | near Isleton | near Rancho Murieta | 160 |
| Fire history | 5 | 5 | 95 | near Isleton | near Isleton | 160 |
| Fire weather* | — | — | 69 | — | Isleton | 7 |
| Composite | 13.4 | 22.2 | 65.6 | Elk Grove | Rancho Murieta | 160 |
*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.
Independently 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.
Source: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).
CAL 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.
160 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.
Property-specific home features were not measured at all in this county view.
What 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.
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Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.
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Every 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.
High 1 ZIP
Moderate 9 ZIPs
Low 32 ZIPs
No sampled point inside 30 ZIPs
94585 Isleton · 95219 Isleton · 95220 Galt · 95242 Galt · 95605 Sacramento · 95612 Walnut Grove · 95621 Citrus Heights · 95640 Rancho Murieta · 95652 Rio Linda · 95659 Rio Linda · 95660 Rio Linda · 95662 Folsom · 95664 Folsom · 95669 Rancho Murieta · 95671 Folsom · 95678 Citrus Heights · 95680 Walnut Grove · 95682 Rancho Murieta · 95686 Walnut Grove · 95691 Sacramento · 95746 Folsom · 95762 Folsom · 95811 Sacramento · 95818 Sacramento · 95819 Sacramento · 95824 Sacramento · 95825 Sacramento · 95831 Sacramento · 95832 Elk Grove · 95841 Citrus Heights
Grouped 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.
ZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.
No. 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.
Since 1984, 11,278 acres have burned within recorded perimeters, which is 1.8% of the county, across 41 perimeters.
Latrobe (2017) is the most recent large fire listed in the county summary here, and it is also listed as the largest.
No. Fire weather was only measured at a handful of points, specifically at Isleton (69.0), so it could not be measured across the county.
FEMA’s National Risk Index rates the county’s wildfire risk as Relatively Moderate.
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