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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Siskiyou County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Siskiyou County spans a wide range across the places we scored, from 23.9 near Dorris to 85.3 in unincorporated parts of the county. The middle score is 67.9, which puts a lot of local variation on top of an already elevated baseline.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Siskiyou County\n\nSiskiyou County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Siskiyou County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Siskiyou County spans a wide range across the places we scored, from 23.9 near Dorris to 85.3 in unincorporated parts of the county. The middle score is 67.9, which puts a lot of local variation on top of an already elevated baseline.\n\n[Score my Siskiyou County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nSiskiyou 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 Siskiyou County scores _High_ or worse\n\nWe scored 162 points across Siskiyou County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 30% 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\n30%\n\n60%\n\n**Very High** 30% · 49 of 162 points **High** 60% · 98 of 162 points **Moderate** 9% · 14 of 162 points **Low** 1% · 1 of 162 points\n\nSafest end we measured 23.9 near Dorris · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 67.9 High — half of Siskiyou County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 85.3 near unincorporated Siskiyou County · 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 98.6 / 100\n\n$14.1M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High\n\n1.44% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 3.47%\n\n7.28 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 97% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Siskiyou County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively High · community resilience Relatively Moderate · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0077.\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 Siskiyou 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 _Siskiyou County_\n\nMost scored locations fall in the High tier, with 98 places there, and another 49 in Very High. Only 14 places scored Moderate, and 1 scored Low.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Siskiyou County’s wildfire risk as “Relatively High” and its expected annual wildfire loss as “Relatively High.”\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 2,161,852 acres have burned in Siskiyou County, and 53.6% of the county has burned in that period. There have also been 539 fire perimeters recorded since 1984.\n\nThe largest fire listed here is Haypress (River Complex) in 2021, at 193,402 acres. The most recent large fire is Butler (2025).\n\nOther major fires in the county record include Antelope (2021) at 145,632 acres and McKinney (2022) at 60,109 acres, showing that very large fires have occurred in multiple recent years.\n\n![McCash Fire (2021) in Siskiyou County, California - The McCash Fire burned 94,962 acres (38,430 hectares) in Northern California's Siskiyou County between July 31 and October 27, 202](/images/wildfire-risk/siskiyou-county/photos/mccash-fire-and-klamath-river-august-25-2021.webp)\n\n**McCash Fire, 2021** — Siskiyou County. Photo: Geoff Liesik · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:McCash_Fire_and_Klamath_River_August_25_2021.jpg)\n\n539 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n2,161,852 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n53.6% of the county's area, as a share of 16,335.9 km²\n\nButler 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-   **Haypress (River Complex) Fire**2021193,402 acres\n-   **Antelope Fire**2021145,632 acres\n-   **Frying Pan Fire**2014133,177 acres\n-   **McCash Fire**202194,962 acres\n-   **Eclipse Complex Fire**201790,864 acres\n-   **Caldwell Fire**202080,852 acres\n-   **Oak Fire**201791,125 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **McKinney Fire**202260,109 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Haypress (River Complex) 2021. 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\nSeveral communities sit in a similar high-60s band: Yreka is 68.5, Mount Shasta is 67.5, and Dunsmuir is 67.7. Fort Jones is also close at 68.6.\n\nHigher-scoring communities include Happy Camp at 82.0 and Seiad Valley at 79.5, with Weed at 71.8.\n\nLower-scoring communities in this set include Tulelake at 52.7, Dorris at 58.6, and Montague at 58.8.\n\nHappy Camp village\n\n82 _Very High_\n\nSeiad Valley village · 300 people\n\n79.5 _Very High_\n\nWeed village · 3,040 people\n\n71.8 _High_\n\nEtna village · 678 people\n\n70 _High_\n\nFort Jones village · 659 people\n\n68.6 _High_\n\nYreka town · 7,765 people\n\n68.5 _High_\n\nDunsmuir village · 1,836 people\n\n67.7 _High_\n\nMount Shasta town · 3,394 people\n\n67.5 _High_\n\nMcCloud village\n\n59 _High_\n\nMontague village · 1,481 people\n\n58.8 _High_\n\n2 more communities in Siskiyou County\n\nDorris village · 855 people\n\n58.6 _High_\n\nTulelake village · 986 people\n\n52.7 _High_\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\nFire weather was not measured at all for Siskiyou County on this page.\n\nFor terrain, scores run from 40.0 near Etna up to 65.0 in unincorporated parts of the county, with a middle value of 65.0.\n\nFor vegetation and fuels, the low end is 20.0 in Yreka and the high end is 80.0 in Etna, with a middle value of 70.0.\n\n65 median terrain score (max 65 near unincorporated Siskiyou County)\n\n70 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Etna)\n\n![LANDFIRE existing vegetation type map of Siskiyou County, California, with the county boundary outlined](/images/wildfire-risk/siskiyou-county/generated/siskiyou-county-fuels.webp)\n\nLANDFIRE existing vegetation type across Siskiyou County — the same fuel data that feeds the vegetation layer of a Satelife property report.\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Siskiyou County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Siskiyou County. The other four indicators on this page were, and the bars below show what they found.\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk is not uniform across Siskiyou County. Some of the highest community-level scores are in Happy Camp (82.0) and Seiad Valley (79.5), while lower values appear in Tulelake (52.7).\n\nAmong larger towns, Weed is at 71.8, while Yreka is 68.5 and Mount Shasta is 67.5. That keeps several market areas relatively close to each other, but not identical.\n\nScores also peak outside city limits: the county’s highest scored location is in unincorporated Siskiyou County at 85.3.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Siskiyou 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\n40–65 highest near unincorporated Siskiyou County\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–80 highest near Etna\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–100 highest near unincorporated Siskiyou County\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near unincorporated Siskiyou County\n\nOverall score\n\n23.9–85.3 highest near unincorporated Siskiyou County\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\n40\n\n65\n\n65\n\nnear Etna\n\nunincorporated Siskiyou County\n\n162\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n70\n\n80\n\nYreka\n\nEtna\n\n162\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n87.2\n\n100\n\nEtna\n\nunincorporated Siskiyou County\n\n162\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n70\n\n95\n\nnear McCloud\n\nunincorporated Siskiyou County\n\n162\n\nComposite\n\n23.9\n\n67.9\n\n85.3\n\nnear Dorris\n\nunincorporated Siskiyou County\n\n162\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **1.44%** (90th percentile cell: **3.47%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **7.28 ft**. **97%** of the 30,715 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 **92** of the 162 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas, and most of this county is state or federal land. At **92** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead.\n\n162 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\nFor property-level context, the countywide burn-probability model reports a mean annual burn probability of 1.44%, and its 90th-percentile cell is 3.47%. It also indicates 97.3% of the county can burn. This is a burn-probability view, not a fire-weather measurement.\n\nTwo local factors shown on this page are consistently elevated in many places: hazard-zone scores have a middle value of 87.2, and fire-history scores have a middle value of 70.0. The fire-history range runs from 5.0 near McCloud to 95.0 in unincorporated Siskiyou County.\n\nFor a home search or listing conversation, it helps to treat neighborhood differences as real: the gap between places like Tulelake (52.7) and Happy Camp (82.0) is large enough to matter in how wildfire risk is described.\n\nAcross 162 sampled points in Siskiyou County, the score runs from 23.9 to 85.3 — 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 Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County\n\nEvery one of the 38 ZIP areas that touch Siskiyou 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** 6 ZIPs\n\n-   [96039 Happy Camp82](/wildfire-risk/zip/96039/)\n-   [96031 Etna80](/wildfire-risk/zip/96031/)\n-   [96086 Seiad Valley80](/wildfire-risk/zip/96086/)\n-   [95568 Happy Camp77](/wildfire-risk/zip/95568/)\n-   [96097 Yreka76](/wildfire-risk/zip/96097/)\n-   [96050 Seiad Valley75](/wildfire-risk/zip/96050/)\n\n**High** 14 ZIPs\n\n-   [96044 Yreka74](/wildfire-risk/zip/96044/)\n-   [96094 Weed74](/wildfire-risk/zip/96094/)\n-   [96027 Etna73](/wildfire-risk/zip/96027/)\n-   [96085 Seiad Valley73](/wildfire-risk/zip/96085/)\n-   [96032 Fort Jones69](/wildfire-risk/zip/96032/)\n-   [96034 Weed69](/wildfire-risk/zip/96034/)\n-   [96025 Dunsmuir68](/wildfire-risk/zip/96025/)\n-   [96067 Mount Shasta68](/wildfire-risk/zip/96067/)\n-   [96014 Etna66](/wildfire-risk/zip/96014/)\n-   [96058 Dorris62](/wildfire-risk/zip/96058/)\n-   [96134 Tulelake61](/wildfire-risk/zip/96134/)\n-   [96057 McCloud59](/wildfire-risk/zip/96057/)\n-   [96023 Dorris58](/wildfire-risk/zip/96023/)\n-   [96064 Montague58](/wildfire-risk/zip/96064/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 18 ZIPs\n\n[95527](/wildfire-risk/zip/95527/) · [95543 Happy Camp](/wildfire-risk/zip/95543/) · [95556](/wildfire-risk/zip/95556/) · [96010](/wildfire-risk/zip/96010/) · [96017 Dunsmuir](/wildfire-risk/zip/96017/) · [96028](/wildfire-risk/zip/96028/) · [96037 Etna](/wildfire-risk/zip/96037/) · [96038 Montague](/wildfire-risk/zip/96038/) · [96048](/wildfire-risk/zip/96048/) · [96056](/wildfire-risk/zip/96056/) · [96091](/wildfire-risk/zip/96091/) · [97520](/wildfire-risk/zip/97520/) · [97523](/wildfire-risk/zip/97523/) · [97530 Seiad Valley](/wildfire-risk/zip/97530/) · [97603 Tulelake](/wildfire-risk/zip/97603/) · [97627 Dorris](/wildfire-risk/zip/97627/) · [97632 Tulelake](/wildfire-risk/zip/97632/) · [97633 Tulelake](/wildfire-risk/zip/97633/)\n\nGrouped from 20 of 38 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## Siskiyou 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 Siskiyou County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Siskiyou County wildfire risk_\n\nIs Siskiyou County generally high risk for wildfire?\n\nAcross the places we scored, most locations are in the High tier (98) and many are in Very High (49). FEMA’s National Risk Index also rates the county’s wildfire risk as “Relatively High.”\n\nHow much of Siskiyou County has burned?\n\nSince 1984, 2,161,852 acres have burned, which is 53.6% of the county.\n\nWhat are the biggest and most recent large fires here?\n\nThe largest listed fire is Haypress (River Complex) in 2021 at 193,402 acres. The most recent large fire is Butler (2025).\n\nAre wildfire scores the same across towns?\n\nNo. In this set, Happy Camp is 82.0 and Seiad Valley is 79.5, while Tulelake is 52.7. Towns like Yreka (68.5) and Mount Shasta (67.5) are closer to each other.\n\nDo these numbers include fire weather?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured at all for Siskiyou County on this page.\n\nThis page is generated from a Siskiyou 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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