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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in Yolo County, CA 2026 | Satelife",
  "description": "Wildfire risk in Yolo County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The lowest score is 13.4 in Davis, the highest is 83.2 near Esparto, and the county’s middle score is 22.2.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Yolo County\n\nYolo County, California\n\n# Wildfire risk in Yolo County: _where it is highest_, and why\n\nWildfire risk in Yolo County spans a wide range across the places we scored. The lowest score is 13.4 in Davis, the highest is 83.2 near Esparto, and the county’s middle score is 22.2.\n\n[Score my Yolo County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance)\n\nBefore 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity\n\nYolo 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 Yolo County scores _Low_ or worse\n\nWe scored 156 points across Yolo County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 10% of them come out Very High, while 59% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you.\n\n21%\n\n11%\n\n59%\n\n**Very High** 10% · 15 of 156 points **High** 21% · 32 of 156 points **Moderate** 11% · 17 of 156 points **Low** 59% · 92 of 156 points\n\nSafest end we measured 13.4 near Davis · Low\n\nMiddle of the county 22.2 Low — half of Yolo County is above this\n\nMost exposed end we measured 83.2 near Esparto · 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 87 / 100\n\n$988k / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Moderate\n\n1.04% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 3.43%\n\n4.25 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 76% of the county carries burnable fuel\n\nFEMA NRI also rates Yolo County: all-hazards risk Relatively Moderate · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively High · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0046.\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 Yolo 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 _Yolo County_\n\nMost places we scored fell in the Low tier, with 92 locations in that tier. There are also pockets in Moderate, High, and Very High tiers, so local differences matter inside the county.\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Yolo County’s wildfire risk as “Relatively Low.” In the same index, FEMA rates expected annual loss from wildfire as “Relatively Moderate.”\n\nFire record\n\n## Where the fires _actually were_\n\nSince 1984, 198,832 acres have burned in Yolo County, and 30.6% of the county has burned in that period. The county has had 52 fire perimeters since 1984.\n\nThe largest fire listed here is the County fire in 2018, at 89,836 acres. The most recent large fire is Sand (2019).\n\nOther major fires connected to the county include the Rocky fire (2015, 69,438 acres, partly in county) and the Rumsey fire (2004, 38,763 acres, partly in county).\n\n![County Fire (2018) in Yolo County, California - A launch and retrieve team from the 132nd Multirole Bridge Company, 579th Engineer Battalion, 49th Military Police Brigade, Califo](/images/wildfire-risk/yolo-county/photos/california-national-guard-43445800091.webp)\n\n**County Fire, 2018** — Yolo County. Photo: The National Guard Staff Sgt. Edward Siguenza/California National Guard · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:California_National_Guard_\\(43445800091\\).jpg)\n\n![Rocky Fire (2015) in Yolo County, California - Spc. Crysti Gonzalez, left, and a team member of the 132nd Multirole Bridge Company (MRBC), California Army National Guard, carry ](/images/wildfire-risk/yolo-county/photos/bridging-gaps-literally-150807-z-wm549-026.webp)\n\n**Rocky Fire, 2015** — Yolo County. Photo: Staff Sgt. Edward Siguenza · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bridging_gaps,_literally_150807-Z-WM549-026.jpg)\n\n52 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984\n\n198,832 acres inside those perimeters since 1984\n\n30.6% of the county's area, as a share of 2,631.3 km²\n\nSand 2019 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-   **County Fire**201889,836 acres\n-   **Rocky Fire**201569,438 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Rumsey Fire**200438,763 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Zam Assist Fire**200613,969 acres\n-   **Jerusalem Fire**201525,118 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Langes Peak Fire**198114,448 acres\n-   **Sixteen Fire**199937,893 acres in totalcrossed into the county\n-   **Monticello Fire**20146,599 acres\n\nPerimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · largest on record: County 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\nThe largest cities shown here cluster at the lower end of county risk. Davis and Woodland both have a middle score of 18.9, and West Sacramento is 20.0.\n\nSmaller communities vary more. Winters is much higher at 42.8, Esparto is 26.7, and Knights Landing is 18.9.\n\nFor homeowners, buyers, and agents, that means city name alone does not tell the full story. Nearby locations in the same county can land in very different wildfire-risk tiers.\n\nWinters village · 7,315 people\n\n42.8 _Moderate_\n\nEsparto village · 3,572 people\n\n26.7 _Moderate_\n\nWest Sacramento town · 44,162 people\n\n20 _Low_\n\nDavis city · 66,850 people\n\n18.9 _Low_\n\nWoodland town · 55,468 people\n\n18.9 _Low_\n\nKnights Landing village\n\n18.9 _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 wildfire risk is low in flatter areas and higher in rougher ground. The terrain score is 20.0 near Davis and reaches 65.0 near Esparto, with a county middle of 20.0.\n\nVegetation and fuels show a broader spread. That score is 20.0 in Davis and climbs to 80.0 near Esparto, with a middle value of 45.5.\n\nState hazard-zone scoring is also uneven: 10.0 near Davis and 94.7 near Esparto, with a middle of 10.0.\n\nFire-history scoring runs from 5.0 near Davis to 95.0 in Winters, with a county middle of 5.0.\n\n20 median terrain score (max 65 near Esparto)\n\n45.5 median vegetation & fuels score (max 80 near Esparto)\n\nFire weather\n\n## Fire weather across _Yolo County_\n\nFire weather was not measured at the sampled points in Yolo 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 Yolo County. The highest score we found, 83.2, is near Esparto, while the lowest, 13.4, is in Davis.\n\nAmong named communities, Winters stands out with a middle local score of 42.8, while Davis and Woodland are both 18.9. That gap shows how quickly risk can change from one part of the county to another.\n\nWest Sacramento sits at 20.0 and Esparto at 26.7, between the lowest and highest community values shown here.\n\nEach bar is what one part of the score covers across Yolo 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 Esparto\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20–80 highest near Esparto\n\nHazard zone\n\n10–94.7 highest near Esparto\n\nFire history\n\n5–95 highest near Winters\n\nOverall score\n\n13.4–83.2 highest near Esparto\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\n65\n\nnear Davis\n\nnear Esparto\n\n156\n\nVegetation & fuels\n\n20\n\n45.5\n\n80\n\nDavis\n\nnear Esparto\n\n156\n\nHazard zone\n\n10\n\n10\n\n94.7\n\nnear Davis\n\nnear Esparto\n\n156\n\nFire history\n\n5\n\n5\n\n95\n\nnear Davis\n\nWinters\n\n156\n\nComposite\n\n13.4\n\n22.2\n\n83.2\n\nDavis\n\nnear Esparto\n\n156\n\nIndependently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **1.04%** (90th percentile cell: **3.43%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **4.25 ft**. **76%** of the 19,447 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 **8** of the 156 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **8** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead.\n\n156 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\nFire weather was not measured for Yolo County in this scoring.\n\nWhat is available includes modeled burn probability from the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities product: mean annual burn probability is 1.04%, and the 90th percentile cell is 3.43%.\n\nThat same USFS product indicates 75.6% of the county can burn, and mean conditional flame length is 4.25 feet. These are county-scale indicators to use alongside the location-specific wildfire risk score for a property.\n\nAcross 156 sampled points in Yolo County, the score runs from 13.4 to 83.2 — 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 Yolo 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 Yolo County\n\nEvery one of the 36 ZIP areas that touch Yolo 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-   [95637 Esparto78](/wildfire-risk/zip/95637/)\n\n**High** 3 ZIPs\n\n-   [95679 Esparto71](/wildfire-risk/zip/95679/)\n-   [95606 Esparto68](/wildfire-risk/zip/95606/)\n-   [95607 Esparto62](/wildfire-risk/zip/95607/)\n\n**Moderate** 4 ZIPs\n\n-   [95694 Winters48](/wildfire-risk/zip/95694/)\n-   [95698 Knights Landing45](/wildfire-risk/zip/95698/)\n-   [95937 Esparto37](/wildfire-risk/zip/95937/)\n-   [95653 Esparto26](/wildfire-risk/zip/95653/)\n\n**Low** 10 ZIPs\n\n-   [95605 West Sacramento24](/wildfire-risk/zip/95605/)\n-   [95627 Esparto24](/wildfire-risk/zip/95627/)\n-   [95695 Woodland21](/wildfire-risk/zip/95695/)\n-   [95691 West Sacramento19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95691/)\n-   [95612 West Sacramento19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95612/)\n-   [95618 Davis19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95618/)\n-   [95620 Davis19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95620/)\n-   [95645 Knights Landing19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95645/)\n-   [95776 Woodland19](/wildfire-risk/zip/95776/)\n-   [95616 Davis18](/wildfire-risk/zip/95616/)\n\n**No sampled point inside** 18 ZIPs\n\n[94558 Winters](/wildfire-risk/zip/94558/) · [95457](/wildfire-risk/zip/95457/) · [95615 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95615/) · [95659 Knights Landing](/wildfire-risk/zip/95659/) · [95688 Winters](/wildfire-risk/zip/95688/) · [95690 Davis](/wildfire-risk/zip/95690/) · [95697 Woodland](/wildfire-risk/zip/95697/) · [95811 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95811/) · [95814 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95814/) · [95818 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95818/) · [95822 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95822/) · [95831 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95831/) · [95832 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95832/) · [95833 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95833/) · [95834 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95834/) · [95837 West Sacramento](/wildfire-risk/zip/95837/) · [95912 Esparto](/wildfire-risk/zip/95912/) · [95987](/wildfire-risk/zip/95987/)\n\nGrouped from 18 of 36 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## Yolo 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 Yolo County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nFAQ\n\n## Frequently asked questions about _Yolo County wildfire risk_\n\nHas much of Yolo County burned in recent decades?\n\nYes. Since 1984, 198,832 acres have burned, which is 30.6% of the county.\n\nWhat are the most important fires to know here?\n\nThe largest is the County fire in 2018 at 89,836 acres. The most recent large fire is Sand (2019).\n\nIs most of the county in a high wildfire-risk tier?\n\nNo. Most places we scored fell in the Low tier (92 locations), though some places are in Moderate, High, and Very High tiers.\n\nDoes this include fire weather for Yolo County?\n\nNo. Fire weather was not measured for Yolo County in this scoring. The available county-scale model output includes burn probability values of 1.04% (mean annual) and 3.43% (90th percentile cell).\n\nHow does FEMA rate wildfire risk for the county?\n\nFEMA’s National Risk Index rates Yolo County’s wildfire risk as “Relatively Low,” and its wildfire expected annual loss rating as “Relatively Moderate.”\n\nThis page is generated from a Yolo 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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