Tehama County, California

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

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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Tehama 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 Tehama County scores High or worse

We 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.

23%

58%

15%

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

Safest end we measured 18.4 near Corning · Low

Middle of the county 63.5 High — half of Tehama County is above this

Most exposed end we measured 85.4 near unincorporated Tehama County · Very High

And the federal models agree it is a fire county

Relatively High FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 98.5 / 100

$15.8M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High

1.70% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 4.14%

5.96 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 97% of the county carries burnable fuel

FEMA NRI also rates Tehama County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively Moderate · community resilience Relatively Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0079.

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.

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Local context

What the data says about Tehama County

Most 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.

FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Tehama County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High, and its wildfire expected annual loss rating is also Relatively High.

Fire record

Where the fires actually were

Fire 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.

By 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.

Other 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.

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’ — **Park Fire, 2024** — Tehama County. Photo: MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC · Public domain

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 — **McFarland Fire, 2021** — Tehama County. Photo: NASA/Lauren Dauphin · Public domain

242 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984

1,816,982 acres inside those perimeters since 1984

96.6% of the county's area, as a share of 7,615.2 km²

Park 2024 most recent large fire on record

Named fires on record

Doe Fire2020589,835 acres
Park Fire2024429,603 acres709 structures destroyed
McFarland Fire2021122,350 acres
Dixie Fire2021963,309 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Campbell Fire1990131,504 acres
Elkhorn Fire202051,577 acres
Hopkins Fire2020328,363 acres in totalcrossed into the county
Skinner Mill Fire197689,133 acres

Perimeter 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.

Communities

Where in the county you are matters most

Among 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.

Rancho 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.

Lower 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.

Manton village

76.2 Very High

Mineral village · 136 people

63.9 High

Paskenta village

61.6 High

Rancho Tehama Reserve village · 1,485 people

56.6 High

Red Bluff town · 14,539 people

53.7 High

Los Molinos village · 1,924 people

47 Moderate

Vina village · 212 people

41.9 Moderate

Gerber village

34.6 Moderate

Corning town · 10,642 people

22.9 Low

Tehama village · 503 people

22.2 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 at all in Tehama County.

Terrain 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.

Vegetation 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.

40 median terrain score (max 65 near Paskenta)

70 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Rancho Tehama Reserve)

Fire weather

Fire weather across Tehama County

Fire 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.

What drives it

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

Risk 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.

Fire-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.

Each 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.

Terrain

20–65 highest near Paskenta

Vegetation & fuels

20–80 highest near Rancho Tehama Reserve

Hazard zone

10–99.1 highest near unincorporated Tehama County

Fire history

5–95 highest near Vina

Overall score

18.4–85.4 highest near unincorporated Tehama County

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	20	40	65	near Corning	near Paskenta	160
Vegetation & fuels	20	70	80	Red Bluff	near Rancho Tehama Reserve	160
Hazard zone	10	75.9	99.1	near Corning	unincorporated Tehama County	160
Fire history	5	50	95	near Paskenta	Vina	160
Composite	18.4	63.5	85.4	near Corning	unincorporated Tehama County	160

Independently 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.

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

CAL 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.

160 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

For 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.

A 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.

Across 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.

Find out where your Tehama 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.

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Coverage

ZIP codes we cover in Tehama County

Every 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.

Very High 1 ZIP

96075 Manton81

High 10 ZIPs

Moderate 4 ZIPs

Low 1 ZIP

96090 Tehama22

No sampled point inside 6 ZIPs

95428 · 95595 · 95942 Mineral · 96007 Red Bluff · 96078 Gerber · 96088 Manton

Grouped 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.

ZIP areas are Census 2020 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas intersecting the county boundary.

Where to go next

Tehama County wildfire risk in context

California wildfire risk The statewide picture and every county page we publish Wildfire risk by state Every state and county we cover How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits Create a wildfire evacuation plan Zones, egress routes, refuge areas Run a report for a Tehama County address PDF + score + mitigation plan

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about Tehama County wildfire risk

What is the most recent large fire connected to Tehama County?

The most recent large fire is the Park Fire (2024). It burned 429,603 acres and destroyed 709 structures.

What is the largest fire listed for this county?

By the county fire stats, the largest listed fire is the Doe Fire (2020) at 589,835 acres.

Does most of the county score in lower or higher wildfire-risk tiers?

Higher tiers are more common. The largest count of scored points is in the High tier, and many others are in Very High.

Was fire weather included in these county scores?

No. Fire weather was not measured at all in Tehama County.

How does FEMA rate Tehama County’s wildfire risk?

FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Tehama County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High, and its wildfire expected annual loss rating as Relatively High.