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San Joaquin County, California

Wildfire risk in San Joaquin County: where it is highest, and why

Across San Joaquin County, wildfire risk scores run from 10.8 in Lincoln Village to 70.9 near Tracy. The middle scored level is 18.9.

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San Joaquin County — the largest fires on record, at their perimeter centres, with the county’s main communities. Select a marker for its detail.
At a glance

Half of San Joaquin County scores Low or worse

We scored 178 points across San Joaquin County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 8% of them come out High, while 80% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.

High 8% · 14 of 178 points Moderate 12% · 22 of 178 points Low 80% · 142 of 178 points
Safest end we measured 10.8 near Lincoln Village · Low
Middle of the county 18.9 Low — half of San Joaquin County is above this
Most exposed end we measured 70.9 near Tracy · High

And the federal models agree it is a fire county

Relatively Moderate FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 92 / 100
$1.9M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Moderate
0.48% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 1.44%
2.47 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 70% of the county carries burnable fuel

FEMA NRI also rates San Joaquin County: all-hazards risk Relatively High · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively Moderate · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0032.

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.

What does your San Joaquin County address score?

A county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it.

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Local context

What the data says about San Joaquin County

Most scored places fall in the Low tier: 142 points are Low, and 14 are High. No scored points are in Very High.

FEMA’s National Risk Index rates the county’s wildfire risk as “Relatively Moderate” and its expected annual wildfire loss as “Relatively Moderate.” FEMA rates the county’s all-hazards risk as “Relatively High.”

Fire record

Where the fires actually were

The Corral fire in 2009 is both the largest fire listed here and the most recent large fire, at 12,243 acres.

Since 1984, fire perimeters in the county add up to 39,756 acres, and 4.4% of the county has burned in that period. This record includes 53 perimeters since 1984.

Other named fires in this record include Midway (2006), Tesla (2005, partly in county), and Explosives (2009).

53 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984
39,756 acres inside those perimeters since 1984
4.4% of the county's area, as a share of 3,672 km²
Corral 2009 most recent large fire on record
Named fires on record
  • Corral Fire200912,243 acres
  • Midway Fire20065,540 acres
  • Site 300 #3 Fire19847,605 acres
  • Tesla Fire20056,440 acres in totalcrossed into the county
  • Smiths Ridge Fire19514,417 acres
  • Carnegie #3 Fire19704,390 acres
  • Explosives Fire20091,989 acres
  • San Joaquin Co. Fire19532,760 acres

Perimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · largest on record: Corral 2009. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records.

Communities

Where in the county you are matters most

Many communities in this county sit in the high teens to low 20s, including Lathrop at 20.2 and Lodi at 18.1.

Some of the higher community levels in this list are Dogtown at 25.9, Lockeford at 23.5, and Peters at 22.8.

Lower community levels include Stockton at 13.4, Morada at 15.1, and Lincoln Village at 15.6.

Dogtown village
25.9 Moderate
Lockeford village
23.5 Low
Tracy city
23.4 Low
Peters village
22.8 Low
Farmington village
22.6 Low
Linden village
22.1 Low
Mountain House city
21.5 Low
August village
20.6 Low
Collierville village
20.3 Low
Lathrop city
20.2 Low
18 more communities in San Joaquin County
French Camp village
19.9 Low
Waterloo village
18.9 Low
Ripon city
18.9 Low
Woodbridge village
18.9 Low
Garden Acres village
18.9 Low
Thornton village
18.9 Low
Acampo village
18.7 Low
Escalon city
18.5 Low
Lodi city
18.1 Low
Victor village
18.1 Low
Kennedy village
17.9 Low
Manteca city
17.6 Low
Country Club village
16.4 Low
Terminous village
16.4 Low
Lincoln Village village
15.6 Low
Morada village
15.1 Low
Stockton city
13.4 Low
Taft Mosswood village
13.4 Low

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 & fuels

Terrain, vegetation and fuels

Fire weather was not measured for San Joaquin County on this page.

For terrain, scores range from 5.0 in Mountain House to 65.0 near Tracy, with a middle value of 20.0.

For vegetation and fuels, scores run from 5.0 near Dogtown to 79.1 near Tracy. The middle value is 40.0.

20 median terrain score (max 65 near Tracy)
40 median vegetation & fuels score (max 79.1 near Tracy)
Fire weather

Fire weather across San Joaquin County

Fire weather was not measured at the sampled points in San Joaquin County. The other four indicators on this page were, and the bars below show what they found.

What drives it

Which part of the risk moves, and which doesn't

Wildfire risk is not even across San Joaquin County. The highest scored point is near Tracy at 70.9, while the lowest is in Lincoln Village at 10.8.

Among the listed communities, Dogtown is on the higher side at 25.9, while Stockton and Taft Mosswood are lower at 13.4.

City-level differences show up too: Tracy is 23.4, while Manteca is 17.6.

Each bar is what one part of the score covers across San Joaquin 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.

Terrain
5–65 highest near Tracy
Vegetation & fuels
5–79.1 highest near Tracy
Hazard zone
10–90 highest near Tracy
Fire history
5–95 highest near Linden
Overall score
10.8–70.9 highest near Tracy

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.

Show every number behind these bars
Layer Min Median Max Lowest place Highest place Points
Terrain 5 20 65 Mountain House near Tracy 178
Vegetation & fuels 5 40 79.1 near Dogtown near Tracy 178
Hazard zone 10 10 90 near Tracy near Tracy 178
Fire history 5 5 95 near Tracy Linden 178
Composite 10.8 18.9 70.9 Lincoln Village Tracy 178

Independently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at 0.48% (90th percentile cell: 1.44%), with a mean conditional flame length of 2.47 ft. 70% of the 27,868 grid cells inside the county carry burnable fuel at all.

Source: USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities v2.0 (ImageServer, county extent).

178 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.

For a property

What a county range means for one address

Hazard-zone scores are low in the middle at 10.0, but they reach 90.0 near Tracy.

Fire-history scores are also low in the middle at 5.0, but they rise to 95.0 around Linden.

In the U.S. Forest Service Wildfire Risk to Communities model, mean annual burn probability is 0.48%, and the 90th-percentile cell value is 1.44%. The same model shows 69.7% of the county in areas that can burn.

That model’s mean conditional flame length is 2.47 feet.

Across 178 sampled points in San Joaquin County, the score runs from 10.8 to 70.9 — 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.

Find out where your San Joaquin County parcel sits

Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out, the fire history within a mile — measured at your address, not averaged across the county.

Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan

Coverage

ZIP codes we cover in San Joaquin County

Every one of the 50 ZIP areas that touch San Joaquin 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.

Grouped from 31 of 50 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.

Where to go next

San Joaquin County wildfire risk in context

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about San Joaquin County wildfire risk

Which wildfire risk tier is most common in San Joaquin County?

Low is the most common tier among scored places in the county. There are 142 Low points, and no points in Very High.

What is the largest and most recent large fire listed for the county?

Both are the Corral fire (2009), which is listed at 12,243 acres.

How much of the county has burned since 1984?

4.4% of San Joaquin County has burned since 1984, totaling 39,756 acres in the record shown here.

Does this page include fire weather for San Joaquin County?

No. Fire weather was not measured for this county on this page. The page does include terrain, vegetation and fuels, hazard-zone, fire-history, and burn-probability information.

This page is generated from a San Joaquin 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.

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