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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Tulare County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk is not uniform in Tulare County. The overall scores run from 15.6 in London up to 80.9 near Three Rivers, with a county middle value of 49.2.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Tulare County\n\nTulare County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Tulare County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk is not uniform in Tulare County. The overall scores run from 15.6 in London up to 80.9 near Three Rivers, with a county middle value of 49.2.\n\n[Score my Tulare County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nTulare 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 Tulare County scores _Moderate_ or worse\n\nWe scored 173 points across Tulare County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 8% of them come out Very High, while 17% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n42%\n\n33%\n\n17%\n\n**Very High** 8% · 14 of 173 points **High** 42% · 72 of 173 points **Moderate** 33% · 57 of 173 points **Low** 17% · 30 of 173 points\n\nSafest end we measured 15.6 near London · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 49.2 Moderate — half of Tulare County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 80.9 near Three Rivers · 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 / 100\n\n$10.0M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively High\n\n0.97% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 2.48%\n\n4.55 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 92% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Tulare County: all-hazards risk Relatively High · social vulnerability Relatively High · community resilience Very Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0049.\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 Tulare 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 _Tulare County_\n\nLooking at the four risk tiers, High is the most common tier among the places we scored (72), followed by Moderate (57) and Low (30).\n\nCounty fire activity has also been substantial over time: 32.1% of the county has burned since 1984.\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nThe largest fire listed for Tulare County is the Castle Fire in 2020, at 167,216 acres.\n\nSince 1984, a total of 990,545 acres have burned in the county.\n\nThe most recent large fire is Springs (2025). The county record also shows 450 fire perimeters since 1984.\n\n![Windy Fire (2021) in Tulare County, California - Wildfires continue to rage in western United States. The two largest active fires in Central California, the KNP Complex Fire and ](/images/wildfire-risk/tulare-county/photos/smoke-cloud-generated-by-the-knp-complex-and-windy-fire-cope.webp)\n\n**Windy Fire, 2021** — Tulare County. Photo: European Union, Copernicus Sentinel-3 imagery · [Attribution](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smoke_cloud_generated_by_the_KNP_Complex_and_Windy_Fire_\\(Copernicus\\).jpg)\n\n![Manter Fire (2000) in Tulare County, California - A C-130 Hercules equipped with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System streams a charge of Phos-Chek fire retardant on the Mante](/images/wildfire-risk/tulare-county/photos/defense-gov-news-photo-000731-f-5019k-024.webp)\n\n**Manter Fire, 2000** — Tulare County. Photo: Tech. Sgt. Lono Kollars, U.S. Air Force · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Defense.gov_News_Photo_000731-F-5019K-024.jpg)\n\n450 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n990,545 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n32.1% of the county's area, as a share of 12,483 km²\n\nSprings 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-   **Castle Fire**2020167,216 acres\n-   **Windy Fire**202197,528 acres\n-   **McNally Fire**2002149,475 acres\n-   **Manter Fire**200079,223 acres\n-   **Pier Fire**201736,619 acres\n-   **Cedar Fire**201629,101 acres\n-   **Trout Fire**202423,822 acres\n-   **Lion Fire**201718,914 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · WFIGS Interagency Perimeters · largest on record: Castle 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 larger cities and towns, lower median wildfire risk appears in Visalia (23.1), Tulare (25.6), and Dinuba (21.0).\n\nHigher community medians appear in Porterville (49.6), Orosi (46.4), and Lindsay (43.9).\n\nThree Rivers stands out at 67.3, while places like Exeter (34.3) and Strathmore (39.2) sit between the valley lows and the foothill highs.\n\nThree Rivers village\n\n67.3 _High_\n\nPorterville city · 59,988 people\n\n49.6 _Moderate_\n\nOrosi village · 8,770 people\n\n46.4 _Moderate_\n\nLindsay town · 10,860 people\n\n43.9 _Moderate_\n\nStrathmore village · 2,819 people\n\n39.2 _Moderate_\n\nExeter town · 11,169 people\n\n34.3 _Moderate_\n\nTeviston village\n\n30.2 _Moderate_\n\nTerra Bella village · 3,310 people\n\n28 _Moderate_\n\nWoodlake village · 7,336 people\n\n27.8 _Moderate_\n\nWoodville village · 1,740 people\n\n26.9 _Moderate_\n\n13 more communities in Tulare County\n\nEarlimart village · 8,537 people\n\n26.6 _Moderate_\n\nRichgrove village · 2,882 people\n\n26.1 _Moderate_\n\nTulare town · 59,278 people\n\n25.6 _Moderate_\n\nFarmersville town · 10,397 people\n\n25.6 _Moderate_\n\nPixley village · 3,310 people\n\n24.3 _Low_\n\nTipton village · 2,543 people\n\n23.2 _Low_\n\nVisalia city · 130,104 people\n\n23.1 _Low_\n\nCutler village · 5,000 people\n\n22.2 _Low_\n\nIvanhoe village · 4,495 people\n\n21.5 _Low_\n\nDinuba town · 21,453 people\n\n21 _Low_\n\nGoshen village · 3,006 people\n\n18.9 _Low_\n\nLondon village · 1,869 people\n\n17.2 _Low_\n\nDelft Colony village · 454 people\n\n15.6 _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 scores range from 20.0 near Earlimart to 65.0 near Terra Bella, with a county middle of 40.0. Steeper and more varied ground is associated with higher wildfire risk in parts of the county.\n\nVegetation and fuels are generally elevated: the middle score is 67.5, with a low of 20.0 in Visalia and a high of 80.0 in unincorporated Tulare County. In practical terms, fuels contribute strongly to how risk differs from one area to another.\n\n40 median terrain score (max 65 near Terra Bella)\n\n67.5 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near unincorporated Tulare County)\n\n![LANDFIRE existing vegetation type map of Tulare County, California, with the county boundary outlined](/images/wildfire-risk/tulare-county/generated/tulare-county-fuels.webp)\n\nLANDFIRE existing vegetation type across Tulare County — the same fuel data that feeds the vegetation layer of a Satelife property report.\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Tulare County_\n\nFire weather was measured across the county, and the values are tightly grouped: 55.0 near Terra Bella, 55.4 at the county middle, and 56.5 in Earlimart.\n\nBecause that spread is narrow, day-to-day weather risk signals are relatively similar from one scored location to another compared with the larger swings seen in terrain and fuels.\n\n55 lowest fire-weather score — near Terra Bella\n\n56.5 highest fire-weather score — near Earlimart\n\nWhat drives it\n\n## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't\n\nHigher wildfire risk shows up most clearly around the Sierra foothill side of the county. Three Rivers has a median score of 67.3, and the highest point scored in the county is 80.9 near Three Rivers.\n\nLower scores are concentrated in several valley communities, including Delft Colony at 15.6, London at 17.2, and Goshen at 18.9.\n\nOther communities sit in the middle-to-higher range, such as Porterville at 49.6, Orosi at 46.4, and Lindsay at 43.9.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Tulare 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 Terra Bella\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–80 highest near unincorporated Tulare County\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–93.7 highest near unincorporated Tulare County\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near unincorporated Tulare County\n\nFire weather\n\n55–56.5 highest near Earlimart\n\nOverall score\n\n15.6–80.9 highest near Three Rivers\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 Earlimart\n\nnear Terra Bella\n\n173\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n67.5\n\n80\n\nVisalia\n\nunincorporated Tulare County\n\n173\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n40\n\n93.7\n\nnear Earlimart\n\nunincorporated Tulare County\n\n173\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n30\n\n95\n\nRichgrove\n\nunincorporated Tulare County\n\n173\n\nFire weather\n\n55\n\n55.4\n\n56.5\n\nnear Terra Bella\n\nEarlimart\n\n82\n\nComposite\n\n15.6\n\n49.2\n\n80.9\n\nLondon\n\nnear Three Rivers\n\n173\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **0.97%** (90th percentile cell: **2.48%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **4.55 ft**. **92%** of the 32,615 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 **73** of the 173 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **69** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead; at the remaining 4 the hazard weight is renormalised away rather than scored as low.\n\n173 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 county-wide context, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Tulare County’s wildfire risk as Relatively High, and its expected annual wildfire loss rating as Relatively High. FEMA also rates county social vulnerability as Relatively High and community resilience as Very Low.\n\nThe U.S. Forest Service Wildfire Risk to Communities model reports a mean annual burn probability of 0.97%, with a 90th-percentile cell at 2.48%, and says 92.1% of the county can burn.\n\nHazard-zone scores vary widely by location, from 10.0 near Earlimart to 93.7 in unincorporated Tulare County, with a middle value of 40.0.\n\nFire-history scores also span a wide range: 5.0 in Richgrove, 30.0 at the county middle, and 95.0 in unincorporated Tulare County.\n\nAcross 173 sampled points in Tulare County, the score runs from 15.6 to 80.9 — 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 Tulare 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 Tulare County\n\nEvery one of the 54 ZIP areas that touch Tulare 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** 2 ZIPs\n\n-   [93238 78](/wildfire-risk/zip/93238/)\n-   [93208 Porterville75](/wildfire-risk/zip/93208/)\n\n**High** 9 ZIPs\n\n-   [93262 Three Rivers74](/wildfire-risk/zip/93262/)\n-   [93207 Terra Bella72](/wildfire-risk/zip/93207/)\n-   [93271 Three Rivers70](/wildfire-risk/zip/93271/)\n-   [93260 Terra Bella66](/wildfire-risk/zip/93260/)\n-   [93265 Three Rivers64](/wildfire-risk/zip/93265/)\n-   [93527 62](/wildfire-risk/zip/93527/)\n-   [93603 Three Rivers62](/wildfire-risk/zip/93603/)\n-   [93641 Orosi58](/wildfire-risk/zip/93641/)\n-   [93257 Terra Bella51](/wildfire-risk/zip/93257/)\n\n**Moderate** 14 ZIPs\n\n-   [93218 Richgrove50](/wildfire-risk/zip/93218/)\n-   [93647 Orosi47](/wildfire-risk/zip/93647/)\n-   [93201 Earlimart45](/wildfire-risk/zip/93201/)\n-   [93221 Exeter34](/wildfire-risk/zip/93221/)\n-   [93247 Lindsay34](/wildfire-risk/zip/93247/)\n-   [93267 Strathmore32](/wildfire-risk/zip/93267/)\n-   [93270 Terra Bella28](/wildfire-risk/zip/93270/)\n-   [93286 Woodlake28](/wildfire-risk/zip/93286/)\n-   [93223 Farmersville28](/wildfire-risk/zip/93223/)\n-   [93219 Earlimart27](/wildfire-risk/zip/93219/)\n-   [93215 Richgrove26](/wildfire-risk/zip/93215/)\n-   [93256 Pixley26](/wildfire-risk/zip/93256/)\n-   [93244 Woodlake26](/wildfire-risk/zip/93244/)\n-   [93274 Tulare26](/wildfire-risk/zip/93274/)\n\n**Low** 10 ZIPs\n\n-   [93277 Goshen23](/wildfire-risk/zip/93277/)\n-   [93212 Tipton23](/wildfire-risk/zip/93212/)\n-   [93272 Tipton23](/wildfire-risk/zip/93272/)\n-   [93235 Ivanhoe22](/wildfire-risk/zip/93235/)\n-   [93292 Ivanhoe22](/wildfire-risk/zip/93292/)\n-   [93615 Cutler22](/wildfire-risk/zip/93615/)\n-   [93261 Richgrove21](/wildfire-risk/zip/93261/)\n-   [93631 London19](/wildfire-risk/zip/93631/)\n-   [93618 Dinuba18](/wildfire-risk/zip/93618/)\n-   [93291 Goshen18](/wildfire-risk/zip/93291/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 19 ZIPs\n\n[93226 Richgrove](/wildfire-risk/zip/93226/) · [93227 Goshen](/wildfire-risk/zip/93227/) · [93230 Goshen](/wildfire-risk/zip/93230/) · [93237 Three Rivers](/wildfire-risk/zip/93237/) · [93255](/wildfire-risk/zip/93255/) · [93258 Woodville](/wildfire-risk/zip/93258/) · [93280 Earlimart](/wildfire-risk/zip/93280/) · [93283](/wildfire-risk/zip/93283/) · [93285](/wildfire-risk/zip/93285/) · [93287 Richgrove](/wildfire-risk/zip/93287/) · [93545](/wildfire-risk/zip/93545/) · [93549](/wildfire-risk/zip/93549/) · [93633 Three Rivers](/wildfire-risk/zip/93633/) · [93646 Orosi](/wildfire-risk/zip/93646/) · [93654 Dinuba](/wildfire-risk/zip/93654/) · [93666 Orosi](/wildfire-risk/zip/93666/) · [93670 Cutler](/wildfire-risk/zip/93670/) · [93673 London](/wildfire-risk/zip/93673/) · [93675 Orosi](/wildfire-risk/zip/93675/)\n\nGrouped from 35 of 54 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## Tulare 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 Tulare County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Tulare County wildfire risk_\n\nIs Tulare County considered high risk for wildfire overall?\n\nAt the county level, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Tulare County as Relatively High for wildfire risk.\n\nWhich fire was the largest, and what is the most recent large fire?\n\nThe largest listed fire is Castle (2020) at 167,216 acres. The most recent large fire is Springs (2025).\n\nWhere are wildfire risk scores highest and lowest in the county?\n\nThe highest scored area is near Three Rivers (80.9). The lowest score shown is in London (15.6), with other low valley values such as Delft Colony (15.6) and Goshen (18.9).\n\nDoes fire weather vary a lot across Tulare County?\n\nNot much in the scored locations. Fire-weather scores are closely clustered, from 55.0 to 56.5.\n\nHow much of the county has burned in recent decades?\n\n32.1% of Tulare County has burned since 1984, totaling 990,545 acres.\n\nThis page is generated from a Tulare 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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