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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Sutter County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Sutter County spans a wide range across the places we scored: from 13.4 in Live Oak up to 75.9 in Sutter, with a county midpoint of 21.0. That means risk is not uniform from one part of the county to another.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Sutter County\n\nSutter County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Sutter County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Sutter County spans a wide range across the places we scored: from 13.4 in Live Oak up to 75.9 in Sutter, with a county midpoint of 21.0. That means risk is not uniform from one part of the county to another.\n\n[Score my Sutter County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nSutter 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 Sutter County scores _Low_ or worse\n\nWe scored 153 points across Sutter 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 66% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n25%\n\n66%\n\n**Very High** 1% · 2 of 153 points **High** 8% · 12 of 153 points **Moderate** 25% · 38 of 153 points **Low** 66% · 101 of 153 points\n\nSafest end we measured 13.4 near Live Oak · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 21 Low — half of Sutter County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 75.9 near Sutter · Very High\n\n### And the federal models agree it is a fire county\n\nRelatively Low FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 77.1 / 100\n\n$272k / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Low\n\n0.33% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 0.94%\n\n2.64 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 63% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Sutter County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively Moderate · community resilience Relatively Moderate · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0035.\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 Sutter 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 _Sutter County_\n\nMost scored locations fell in the Low tier (101 points), followed by Moderate (38) and High (12). Only 2 points were in the Very High tier, so the highest-risk conditions are present but limited to relatively few locations.\n\nFor a county-wide outside benchmark, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Sutter County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Low. FEMA also rates the county’s all-hazards risk as Relatively Moderate.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 3,911 acres have burned within mapped fire perimeters in Sutter County, and that equals 1% of the county. There have been 15 mapped fire perimeters in that period.\n\nThe largest fire listed here is Butte (2018) at 1,238 acres, and it is also the most recent large fire.\n\nOther named fires in the county record include West Butte (2019), which burned 648 acres.\n\n15 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n3,911 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n1.0% of the county's area, as a share of 1,567.6 km²\n\nButte 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-   **Butte Fire**20181,238 acres\n-   **West Butte Fire**2019648 acres\n-   **Myrna Fire**2008455 acres\n-   **Butte Fire**2016316 acres\n-   **Peace Valley Fire**2007282 acres\n-   **West Butte Fire**2011240 acres\n-   **Shockley Fire**1970286 acres\n-   **South Ridge Fire**2011110 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · largest on record: Butte 2018. 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\nIn the hazard-zone measure, scored locations range from 10.0 in unincorporated Sutter County up to 90.0 in Sutter. The midpoint is 10.0, which shows many locations scoring near the low end with some much higher pockets.\n\nIn the fire-history measure, scores range from 5.0 in unincorporated Sutter County up to 90.0 in Yuba City, with a midpoint of 5.0. That pattern points to mostly low historical fire-impact scores, alongside a smaller number of places with much higher past-fire exposure.\n\nYuba City city · 66,941 people\n\n30 _Moderate_\n\nSutter village\n\n26.6 _Moderate_\n\nLive Oak town · 8,042 people\n\n22.1 _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 risk is generally low to moderate in the places we scored. Terrain values sit at 20.0 in many locations and reach 40.0 at Sutter.\n\nVegetation and fuels vary more. The lowest value is 20.0 in Yuba City, while the highest is 70.0 near Live Oak, with a midpoint of 40.0.\n\nFire weather was not measured at all in this county results set.\n\n20 median terrain score (max 40 near Sutter)\n\n40 median vegetation & fuels score (max 70 near Live Oak)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Sutter County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Sutter 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\nAt the community level, the typical scored risk is higher in Yuba City (30.0) than in Sutter (26.6) and Live Oak (22.1). Those differences are meaningful for buyers and owners comparing neighborhoods.\n\nLooking at the full spread of scored locations, the highest score appears in Sutter at 75.9, while the lowest appears in Live Oak at 13.4. So even within one county, conditions can vary a lot by location.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Sutter 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\n20–40 highest near Sutter\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–70 highest near Live Oak\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–90 highest near Sutter\n\nFire history\n\n5–90 highest near Yuba City\n\nOverall score\n\n13.4–75.9 highest near Sutter\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\n20\n\n20\n\n40\n\nunincorporated Sutter County\n\nSutter\n\n153\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n40\n\n70\n\nYuba City\n\nnear Live Oak\n\n153\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n10\n\n90\n\nunincorporated Sutter County\n\nSutter\n\n153\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n5\n\n90\n\nunincorporated Sutter County\n\nYuba City\n\n153\n\nComposite\n\n13.4\n\n21\n\n75.9\n\nLive Oak\n\nSutter\n\n153\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.33%** (90th percentile cell: **0.94%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **2.64 ft**. **63%** of the 21,535 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 **1** of the 153 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **1** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead.\n\n153 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\nA separate national wildfire model from the U.S. Forest Service reports a mean annual burn probability of 0.33% for Sutter County, and a 90th-percentile cell value of 0.94%. It also indicates that 63.2% of county area is in places that can burn.\n\nThat same model reports mean conditional flame length of 2.64 feet. For county-wide risk framing, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Sutter County’s wildfire expected annual loss as Relatively Low, with social vulnerability and community resilience both rated Relatively Moderate.\n\nAcross 153 sampled points in Sutter County, the score runs from 13.4 to 75.9 — 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.\n\nFind out where your Sutter 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 Sutter County\n\nEvery one of the 22 ZIP areas that touch Sutter 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-   [95982 Sutter65](/wildfire-risk/zip/95982/)\n\n**Moderate** 3 ZIPs\n\n-   [95626 36](/wildfire-risk/zip/95626/)\n-   [95991 Yuba City32](/wildfire-risk/zip/95991/)\n-   [95953 Sutter26](/wildfire-risk/zip/95953/)\n\n**Low** 7 ZIPs\n\n-   [95674 Yuba City24](/wildfire-risk/zip/95674/)\n-   [95668 Yuba City22](/wildfire-risk/zip/95668/)\n-   [95837 22](/wildfire-risk/zip/95837/)\n-   [95645 Sutter19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95645/)\n-   [95659 Yuba City19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95659/)\n-   [95957 Sutter19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95957/)\n-   [95993 Yuba City19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95993/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 11 ZIPs\n\n[95648 Yuba City](/wildfire-risk/zip/95648/) · [95676 Yuba City](/wildfire-risk/zip/95676/) · [95691](/wildfire-risk/zip/95691/) · [95692 Yuba City](/wildfire-risk/zip/95692/) · [95776](/wildfire-risk/zip/95776/) · [95901 Yuba City](/wildfire-risk/zip/95901/) · [95932 Sutter](/wildfire-risk/zip/95932/) · [95948 Live Oak](/wildfire-risk/zip/95948/) · [95950 Sutter](/wildfire-risk/zip/95950/) · [95961 Yuba City](/wildfire-risk/zip/95961/) · [95965 Live Oak](/wildfire-risk/zip/95965/)\n\nGrouped from 11 of 22 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## Sutter 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 Sutter County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Sutter County wildfire risk_\n\nWhat is the single biggest wildfire listed for Sutter County?\n\nButte (2018) is the largest listed fire at 1,238 acres. It is also identified as the most recent large fire.\n\nDoes all of Sutter County have the same wildfire risk?\n\nNo. In the places scored, values run from 13.4 (Live Oak) to 75.9 (Sutter), so risk varies by location.\n\nWhat tier is most common in the county?\n\nLow is the most common tier, with 101 scored points. Moderate has 38, High has 12, and Very High has 2.\n\nWas fire weather included in these county results?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured at all in this county results set.\n\nHow should I read the burn probability numbers?\n\nThe U.S. Forest Service model reports 0.33% as mean annual burn probability and 0.94% at the 90th-percentile cell. Those are model outputs for burn probability, not a fire-weather rating.\n\nThis page is generated from a Sutter 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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