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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Tehama County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Tehama County varies widely from place to place. Across the places we scored, the overall score runs from 18.4 near Corning to 85.4 in unincorporated Tehama County, with a county midpoint of 63.5.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Tehama County\n\nTehama County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Tehama County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Tehama County varies widely from place to place. Across the places we scored, the overall score runs from 18.4 near Corning to 85.4 in unincorporated Tehama County, with a county midpoint of 63.5.\n\n[Score my Tehama County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nTehama 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 Tehama County scores _High_ or worse\n\nWe scored 160 points across Tehama County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 23% of them come out Very High, while 4% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n23%\n\n58%\n\n15%\n\n**Very High** 23% · 37 of 160 points **High** 58% · 93 of 160 points **Moderate** 15% · 24 of 160 points **Low** 4% · 6 of 160 points\n\nSafest end we measured 18.4 near Corning · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 63.5 High — half of Tehama County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 85.4 near unincorporated Tehama 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 98.5 / 100\n\n$15.8M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High\n\n1.70% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 4.14%\n\n5.96 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 97% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Tehama County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively Moderate · community resilience Relatively Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0079.\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 Tehama 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 _Tehama County_\n\nMost scored locations fall in the High tier (93 points), and another 37 points fall in Very High. That means higher-exposure conditions are common in many parts of the county, not just isolated spots.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Tehama County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High, and its wildfire expected annual loss rating is also Relatively High.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nFire has been a major part of Tehama County’s history. Since 1984, 1,816,982 acres have burned in county fire perimeters, and 96.6% of the county has burned since 1984.\n\nBy the county stats, the largest listed fire is the Doe Fire (2020) at 589,835 acres. The most recent large fire is the Park Fire (2024) at 429,603 acres, which destroyed 709 structures.\n\nOther major events connected to the county include the Dixie Fire (2021), which burned 963,309 acres and was partly in Tehama County, and the Hopkins Fire (2020), 328,363 acres, also partly in the county.\n\n![Park Fire (2024) in Tehama County, California - The Park Fire in Northern California more than doubled in area in a matter of days in late July 2024. It quickly became the state’](/images/wildfire-risk/tehama-county/photos/smoke-from-california-s-park-fire-modis-2024-07-30.webp)\n\n**Park Fire, 2024** — Tehama County. Photo: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smoke_from_California%27s_Park_Fire_\\(MODIS_2024-07-30\\).jpg)\n\n![McFarland Fire (2021) in Tehama County, California - More than 11,000 firefighters are deployed in northern California battling these and several other fires. On August 19, the Operat](/images/wildfire-risk/tehama-county/photos/cafires-oli-2021231-lrg.webp)\n\n**McFarland Fire, 2021** — Tehama County. Photo: NASA/Lauren Dauphin · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cafires_oli_2021231_lrg.jpg)\n\n242 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n1,816,982 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n96.6% of the county's area, as a share of 7,615.2 km²\n\nPark 2024 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-   **Doe Fire**2020589,835 acres\n-   **Park Fire**2024429,603 acres709 structures destroyed\n-   **McFarland Fire**2021122,350 acres\n-   **Dixie Fire**2021963,309 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Campbell Fire**1990131,504 acres\n-   **Elkhorn Fire**202051,577 acres\n-   **Hopkins Fire**2020328,363 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Skinner Mill Fire**197689,133 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Doe 2020. 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 named communities, Manton has one of the highest overall scores at 76.2. Mineral (63.9) and Paskenta (61.6) are also on the higher side.\n\nRancho Tehama Reserve (56.6), Red Bluff (53.7), and Los Molinos (47.0) sit in the middle-to-higher range. These are not the county’s lowest scores, but they are below the highest-exposure locations.\n\nLower community scores include Corning at 22.9 and Tehama at 22.2. Gerber (34.6) and Vina (41.9) fall between those lower values and the county’s higher-risk communities.\n\nManton village\n\n76.2 _Very High_\n\nMineral village · 136 people\n\n63.9 _High_\n\nPaskenta village\n\n61.6 _High_\n\nRancho Tehama Reserve village · 1,485 people\n\n56.6 _High_\n\nRed Bluff town · 14,539 people\n\n53.7 _High_\n\nLos Molinos village · 1,924 people\n\n47 _Moderate_\n\nVina village · 212 people\n\n41.9 _Moderate_\n\nGerber village\n\n34.6 _Moderate_\n\nCorning town · 10,642 people\n\n22.9 _Low_\n\nTehama village · 503 people\n\n22.2 _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\nFire weather was not measured at all in Tehama County.\n\nTerrain conditions still show meaningful differences: terrain scores range from 20.0 near Corning to 65.0 near Paskenta. Steeper or more complex ground is associated with higher wildfire exposure in those higher-scoring areas.\n\nVegetation and fuels are elevated in many places we scored, with a midpoint of 70.0 and a high of 80.0 near Rancho Tehama Reserve. The low point is 20.0 in Red Bluff, indicating less fuel-related exposure there than in the higher-scoring areas.\n\n40 median terrain score (max 65 near Paskenta)\n\n70 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Rancho Tehama Reserve)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Tehama County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Tehama 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 Tehama County. In the hazard-zone scores, values range from 10.0 near Corning to 99.1 in unincorporated Tehama County, showing sharp local differences.\n\nFire-history scores also swing widely, from 5.0 near Paskenta to 95.0 in Vina. This pattern is associated with some neighborhoods and rural areas carrying much higher wildfire exposure than others.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Tehama 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\n20–65 highest near Paskenta\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–80 highest near Rancho Tehama Reserve\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–99.1 highest near unincorporated Tehama County\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Vina\n\nOverall score\n\n18.4–85.4 highest near unincorporated Tehama 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\n20\n\n40\n\n65\n\nnear Corning\n\nnear Paskenta\n\n160\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n70\n\n80\n\nRed Bluff\n\nnear Rancho Tehama Reserve\n\n160\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n75.9\n\n99.1\n\nnear Corning\n\nunincorporated Tehama County\n\n160\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n50\n\n95\n\nnear Paskenta\n\nVina\n\n160\n\nComposite\n\n18.4\n\n63.5\n\n85.4\n\nnear Corning\n\nunincorporated Tehama County\n\n160\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **1.70%** (90th percentile cell: **4.14%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **5.96 ft**. **97%** of the 28,977 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 **37** of the 160 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **36** 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\n160 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 buyers, owners, and agents, local variation matters: homes a few miles apart can sit in very different wildfire-risk settings. Countywide, scored locations span from 18.4 to 85.4, so property context can change quickly across the map.\n\nA separate national model from the U.S. Forest Service shows a mean annual burn probability of 1.70% for the county, with a 90th-percentile cell value of 4.14%. That same model reports mean conditional flame length of 5.96 feet, which contributes additional context when comparing properties.\n\nAcross 160 sampled points in Tehama County, the score runs from 18.4 to 85.4 — 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 Tehama 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 Tehama County\n\nEvery one of the 22 ZIP areas that touch Tehama 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** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [96075 Manton81](/wildfire-risk/zip/96075/)\n\n**High** 10 ZIPs\n\n-   [96076 74](/wildfire-risk/zip/96076/)\n-   [96059 Manton71](/wildfire-risk/zip/96059/)\n-   [96063 Mineral67](/wildfire-risk/zip/96063/)\n-   [96061 Mineral65](/wildfire-risk/zip/96061/)\n-   [95973 Vina65](/wildfire-risk/zip/95973/)\n-   [96055 Los Molinos64](/wildfire-risk/zip/96055/)\n-   [96074 Paskenta64](/wildfire-risk/zip/96074/)\n-   [96022 Red Bluff57](/wildfire-risk/zip/96022/)\n-   [96080 Red Bluff56](/wildfire-risk/zip/96080/)\n-   [96029 Rancho Tehama Reserve55](/wildfire-risk/zip/96029/)\n\n**Moderate** 4 ZIPs\n\n-   [96092 Vina43](/wildfire-risk/zip/96092/)\n-   [96021 Corning38](/wildfire-risk/zip/96021/)\n-   [95963 Corning35](/wildfire-risk/zip/95963/)\n-   [96035 Gerber33](/wildfire-risk/zip/96035/)\n\n**Low** 1 ZIP\n\n-   [96090 Tehama22](/wildfire-risk/zip/96090/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 6 ZIPs\n\n[95428](/wildfire-risk/zip/95428/) · [95595](/wildfire-risk/zip/95595/) · [95942 Mineral](/wildfire-risk/zip/95942/) · [96007 Red Bluff](/wildfire-risk/zip/96007/) · [96078 Gerber](/wildfire-risk/zip/96078/) · [96088 Manton](/wildfire-risk/zip/96088/)\n\nGrouped from 16 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## Tehama 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 Tehama County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Tehama County wildfire risk_\n\nWhat is the most recent large fire connected to Tehama County?\n\nThe most recent large fire is the Park Fire (2024). It burned 429,603 acres and destroyed 709 structures.\n\nWhat is the largest fire listed for this county?\n\nBy the county fire stats, the largest listed fire is the Doe Fire (2020) at 589,835 acres.\n\nDoes most of the county score in lower or higher wildfire-risk tiers?\n\nHigher tiers are more common. The largest count of scored points is in the High tier, and many others are in Very High.\n\nWas fire weather included in these county scores?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured at all in Tehama County.\n\nHow does FEMA rate Tehama County’s wildfire risk?\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Tehama County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High, and its wildfire expected annual loss rating as Relatively High.\n\nThis page is generated from a Tehama 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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