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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Solano County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Solano County varies a lot from place to place. Across the places we scored, overall scores run from 6.7 in Vallejo to 82.6 near Vacaville, with a county middle point of 23.9.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Solano County\n\nSolano County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Solano County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Solano County varies a lot from place to place. Across the places we scored, overall scores run from 6.7 in Vallejo to 82.6 near Vacaville, with a county middle point of 23.9.\n\n[Score my Solano County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nSolano 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 Solano County scores _Low_ or worse\n\nWe scored 158 points across Solano 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 53% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n13%\n\n32%\n\n53%\n\n**Very High** 1% · 2 of 158 points **High** 13% · 21 of 158 points **Moderate** 32% · 51 of 158 points **Low** 53% · 84 of 158 points\n\nSafest end we measured 6.7 near Vallejo · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 23.9 Low — half of Solano County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 82.6 near Vacaville · 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 94.5 / 100\n\n$3.5M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Moderate\n\n0.48% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 1.09%\n\n3.18 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 71% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Solano County: all-hazards risk Relatively High · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively High · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0056.\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 Solano 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 _Solano County_\n\nMost scored points fall in the lower two tiers: Low has 84 points and Moderate has 51. Only 2 points are in the Very High tier, so the highest-risk locations are concentrated rather than widespread.\n\nFor countywide context, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Solano County’s wildfire risk as \"Relatively Moderate.\" FEMA also rates the county’s all-hazards risk as \"Relatively High.\"\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 63,083 acres have burned in Solano County, and that equals 10.9% of the county. The county record also lists 35 fire perimeters in that period.\n\nThe largest fire listed for the county is the Miller fire in 1988, at 34,565 acres.\n\nThe most recent large fire listed is the Nelson fire in 2018, at 2,158 acres. Another major event tied to the county is the Atlas fire in 2017 at 51,625 acres, which was partly in Solano County.\n\n![Wragg Fire (2015) in Solano County, California - 2015 Wragg Fire over Napa, California](/images/wildfire-risk/solano-county/photos/2015-wragg-fire-sarah-stierch.webp)\n\n**Wragg Fire, 2015** — Solano County. Photo: Sarah Stierch · [CC BY 4.0](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2015_Wragg_Fire_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg)\n\n![Atlas Fire (2017) in Solano County, California - Charred hills after the Atlas Fire threatened residential areas in Napa, California, on October 14, 2017. As of October 15, 2017, ](/images/wildfire-risk/solano-county/photos/north-bay-area-fires-in-ca-20171014-oc-lsc-0041.webp)\n\n**Atlas Fire, 2017** — Solano County. Photo: USDAgov · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:North_Bay_Area_fires_in_CA_\\(20171014-OC-LSC-0041\\).jpg)\n\n35 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n63,083 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n10.9% of the county's area, as a share of 2,342.6 km²\n\nNelson 2018 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-   **Miller Fire**198834,565 acres\n-   **Wragg Fire**20158,049 acres\n-   **Atlas Fire**201751,625 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Wild Fire**20084,102 acres\n-   **Peterson Estates #2 Fire**19576,259 acres\n-   **Gates Canyon Fire**19555,552 acres\n-   **Nelson Fire**20182,158 acres\n-   **Martell Fire**19763,785 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · largest on record: Miller 1988. 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 largest cities, Fairfield has the highest middle wildfire-risk score at 45.5. Vacaville is lower at 36.4, and Vallejo is much lower at 16.7.\n\nCordelia stands out at 43.7, close to Fairfield’s level. Suisun City is 23.9 and Benicia is 22.4, both in a lower range than Fairfield and Cordelia.\n\nDixon and Rio Vista are on the lower side as well, at 18.9 and 19.9. So within Solano County, communities cluster at very different risk levels.\n\nFairfield city · 117,133 people\n\n45.5 _Moderate_\n\nCordelia village\n\n43.7 _Moderate_\n\nVacaville city · 100,670 people\n\n36.4 _Moderate_\n\nSuisun City town · 29,663 people\n\n23.9 _Low_\n\nBenicia town · 28,240 people\n\n22.4 _Low_\n\nRio Vista town · 9,718 people\n\n19.9 _Low_\n\nDixon town · 20,698 people\n\n18.9 _Low_\n\nVallejo city · 121,692 people\n\n16.7 _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 contributes to these differences. Terrain scores range from 5.0 in Vallejo to 65.0 near Vacaville, with a middle value of 20.0.\n\nVegetation and fuels show a wider middle level than terrain. Scores run from 5.0 in Vallejo to 80.0 near Vacaville, with a county middle value of 40.0.\n\n20 median terrain score (max 65 near Vacaville)\n\n40 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Vacaville)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Solano County_\n\nFire weather was measured across the county and is consistently elevated in score. It ranges from 60.2 near Vallejo to 68.5 near Rio Vista, with a middle value of 68.0.\n\nA separate USFS county product lists mean annual burn probability as 0.48% and a 90th-percentile cell value of 1.09%. Those are burn-probability figures, not local fire-weather scores.\n\nThat same USFS product indicates 70.7% of the county can burn, with a mean conditional flame length of 3.18 feet.\n\n60.2 lowest fire-weather score — near Vallejo\n\n68.5 highest fire-weather score — near Rio Vista\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nRisk is not uniform across Solano County. Vallejo sits at the low end of the scored range at 6.7, while the highest scored location is near Vacaville at 82.6.\n\nAmong named communities, Fairfield has a higher middle score at 45.5, and Cordelia is close at 43.7. Vallejo is much lower at 16.7.\n\nVacaville’s middle score is 36.4, which is above Suisun City at 23.9 and Benicia at 22.4. This spread shows why neighborhood-level differences matter inside the same county.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Solano 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\n5–65 highest near Vacaville\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5–80 highest near Vacaville\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–90 highest near Cordelia\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Vacaville\n\nFire weather\n\n60.2–68.5 highest near Rio Vista\n\nOverall score\n\n6.7–82.6 highest near Vacaville\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\n65\n\nVallejo\n\nnear Vacaville\n\n158\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n5\n\n40\n\n80\n\nVallejo\n\nnear Vacaville\n\n158\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n10\n\n90\n\nBenicia\n\nCordelia\n\n158\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n5\n\n95\n\nVallejo\n\nnear Vacaville\n\n158\n\nFire weather\n\n60.2\n\n68\n\n68.5\n\nnear Vallejo\n\nnear Rio Vista\n\n69\n\nComposite\n\n6.7\n\n23.9\n\n82.6\n\nVallejo\n\nnear Vacaville\n\n158\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.48%** (90th percentile cell: **1.09%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **3.18 ft**. **71%** of the 23,499 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 **3** of the 158 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **2** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 1 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 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\nAt the property-area level, hazard-zone scores are low in many scored places but can jump in specific locations. The middle hazard-zone score is 10.0, the minimum is 10.0 in Benicia, and the maximum reaches 90.0 in Cordelia.\n\nFire-history scores are also uneven. The middle value is 5.0, but the highest scored location near Vacaville reaches 95.0 while Vallejo is at 5.0.\n\nFor a homeowner, buyer, or agent, this means two addresses in the same county can sit in very different wildfire-risk settings because terrain, fuels, hazard-zone level, and fire history do not line up the same way everywhere.\n\nAcross 158 sampled points in Solano County, the score runs from 6.7 to 82.6 — 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 Solano 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 Solano County\n\nEvery one of the 27 ZIP areas that touch Solano 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** 2 ZIPs\n\n-   [94503 Cordelia61](/wildfire-risk/zip/94503/)\n-   [95688 Vacaville61](/wildfire-risk/zip/95688/)\n\n**Moderate** 9 ZIPs\n\n-   [94591 Vallejo46](/wildfire-risk/zip/94591/)\n-   [94534 Cordelia44](/wildfire-risk/zip/94534/)\n-   [94535 Fairfield43](/wildfire-risk/zip/94535/)\n-   [95694 Dixon38](/wildfire-risk/zip/95694/)\n-   [94533 Fairfield36](/wildfire-risk/zip/94533/)\n-   [95687 Vacaville29](/wildfire-risk/zip/95687/)\n-   [94592 Vallejo28](/wildfire-risk/zip/94592/)\n-   [94571 Rio Vista27](/wildfire-risk/zip/94571/)\n-   [94585 Suisun City25](/wildfire-risk/zip/94585/)\n\n**Low** 8 ZIPs\n\n-   [94510 Benicia25](/wildfire-risk/zip/94510/)\n-   [94512 Rio Vista24](/wildfire-risk/zip/94512/)\n-   [94589 Vallejo24](/wildfire-risk/zip/94589/)\n-   [95616 Dixon23](/wildfire-risk/zip/95616/)\n-   [95690 Rio Vista19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95690/)\n-   [95620 Dixon19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95620/)\n-   [95612 Dixon18](/wildfire-risk/zip/95612/)\n-   [94590 Vallejo17](/wildfire-risk/zip/94590/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 8 ZIPs\n\n[94553 Benicia](/wildfire-risk/zip/94553/) · [94558 Vacaville](/wildfire-risk/zip/94558/) · [94559 Cordelia](/wildfire-risk/zip/94559/) · [94565 Benicia](/wildfire-risk/zip/94565/) · [95615 Rio Vista](/wildfire-risk/zip/95615/) · [95618 Dixon](/wildfire-risk/zip/95618/) · [95625 Vacaville](/wildfire-risk/zip/95625/) · [95641 Rio Vista](/wildfire-risk/zip/95641/)\n\nGrouped from 19 of 27 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## Solano 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 Solano County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Solano County wildfire risk_\n\nHow much of Solano County has burned since 1984?\n\n10.9% of the county has burned since 1984, totaling 63,083 acres.\n\nWhat were the largest and most recent large fires listed for Solano County?\n\nThe largest listed is Miller (1988) at 34,565 acres. The most recent large fire listed is Nelson (2018) at 2,158 acres.\n\nWhich communities score higher or lower for wildfire risk?\n\nFairfield (45.5) and Cordelia (43.7) are on the higher side of the named communities, while Vallejo (16.7) is lower. Vacaville is in between at 36.4.\n\nWhat does FEMA say about countywide wildfire risk?\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Solano County’s wildfire risk as \"Relatively Moderate.\" It rates the county’s all-hazards risk as \"Relatively High.\"\n\nThis page is generated from a Solano 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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