--- title: "Wildfire Risk in Yuba County, CA 2026 | Satelife" description: "Wildfire risk in Yuba County varies a lot by location. Across the places we scored, the overall score runs from 18.9 near Marysville to 82.5 near Loma Rica, with a middle value of 64.9." image: "https://satelife.ai/images/wildfire-risk/yuba-county/generated/yuba-county-locator.webp" canonical: "https://satelife.ai/wildfire-risk/california/yuba-county/" --- [Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›Yuba County Yuba County, California # Wildfire risk in Yuba County: _where it is highest_, and why Wildfire risk in Yuba County varies a lot by location. Across the places we scored, the overall score runs from 18.9 near Marysville to 82.5 near Loma Rica, with a middle value of 64.9. [Score my Yuba County address →](#score-my-address) [How risky is this county? ↓](#risk-at-a-glance) Before 20002000s2010s2020sCommunity Yuba 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 Yuba County scores _High_ or worse We scored 159 points across Yuba County on the same 0–100 scale a Satelife address report uses, and they do not land in one place. 26% of them come out Very High, while 5% are Low. Which end your own parcel sits at is not something a county map can tell you. 26% 39% 30% **Very High** 26% · 41 of 159 points **High** 39% · 62 of 159 points **Moderate** 30% · 48 of 159 points **Low** 5% · 8 of 159 points Safest end we measured 18.9 near Marysville · Low Middle of the county 64.9 High — half of Yuba County is above this Most exposed end we measured 82.5 near Loma Rica · Very High ### And the federal models agree it is a fire county Relatively Moderate FEMA National Risk Index — wildfire risk rating · index score 96.8 / 100 $7.1M / yr FEMA NRI — expected annual loss from wildfire · rated Relatively Moderate 1.16% USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities — mean annual burn probability · 90th-percentile cell 3.11% 9.39 ft USFS WRC — mean conditional flame length · 94% of the county carries burnable fuel FEMA NRI also rates Yuba County: all-hazards risk Relatively Low · social vulnerability Relatively Low · community resilience Relatively Low · annualised wildfire frequency 0.0053. 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. What does your Yuba County address score? A county range shows the spread. Your parcel sits somewhere inside it — the report says where, and what to do about it. Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan Local context ## What the data says about _Yuba County_ Higher tiers are common in this county view. The largest group of scored locations is in the High tier (62 points), and another 41 points are in Very High. FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Yuba County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Moderate, and its expected annual wildfire loss as Relatively Moderate. Fire record ## Where the fires _actually were_ The county’s largest fire and most recent large fire is Cascade (2017), at 16,141 acres. Since 1984, 56,211 acres have burned in Yuba County, which is 13.7% of the county, with 130 recorded fire perimeters. Another major incident tied to the county footprint is the 49'Er fire (1988), which burned 36,343 acres and was partly in Yuba County. ![Pendola Fire (1999) in Yuba County, California - This is a map of the extent of the 1999 Pendola Fire in Northern California's Yuba County, where the fire burned more than 11,000 ](/images/wildfire-risk/yuba-county/photos/1999-pendola-fire.webp) **Pendola Fire, 1999** — Yuba County. Photo: Penitentes · [Public domain](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1999_Pendola_Fire.png) 130 mapped fire perimeters centred in the county since 1984 56,211 acres inside those perimeters since 1984 13.7% of the county's area, as a share of 1,658 km² Cascade 2017 most recent large fire on record Before 20002000s2010s2020s Fire perimeters coloured by decade. Select a perimeter for its name, year and size. Named fires on record - **Cascade Fire**201716,141 acres - **Pendola Fire**199912,324 acres - **Yuba Fire**20093,829 acres - **Williams Fire**19975,838 acres - **Mountain House Fire**195918,522 acres in totalcrossed into the county - **49'Er Fire**198836,343 acres in totalcrossed into the county - **Camp Beale #2 Fire**19504,886 acres - **Carmichael #2 Fire**19604,366 acres Perimeter sources: NIFC Interagency Fire Perimeter History · largest on record: Cascade 2017. Perimeters are simplified for display; acreage is the figure the source records. Communities ## Where in the county you are _matters most_ Among the larger communities shown, Linda has a median score of 41.1 and Olivehurst is 40.1, both above Marysville at 32.2. In foothill communities, scores are much higher: Challenge is 78.8, Brownsville is 75.0, and Camptonville is 72.5. This is the main county pattern: higher exposure in some communities and lower exposure in others. Challenge village 78.8 _Very High_ Brownsville village 75 _Very High_ Camptonville village 72.5 _High_ Loma Rica village 67 _High_ Linda town · 21,654 people 41.1 _Moderate_ Olivehurst town · 13,656 people 40.1 _Moderate_ Wheatland village · 3,580 people 39.3 _Moderate_ Marysville town · 12,327 people 32.2 _Moderate_ Plumas Lake village · 5,853 people 31.8 _Moderate_ 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_ Terrain-related wildfire risk scores run from 20.0 in Plumas Lake to 65.0 near Loma Rica, with a county middle of 40.0. Vegetation and fuels vary even more: from 15.8 near Linda up to 78.2 in Loma Rica, with a middle value of 58.0. Those differences contribute to why some nearby areas score much higher overall than others. 40 median terrain score (max 65 near Loma Rica) 58 median vegetation & fuels score (max 78.2 near Loma Rica) Fire weather ## Fire weather across _Yuba County_ Fire-weather scores are elevated across the county view and less spread out than other factors. They range from 55.5 in Camptonville to 64.7 near Loma Rica, with a middle value of 64.7. So, compared with terrain or fuels, fire weather changes less from place to place here, while still contributing to overall wildfire risk. 55.5 lowest fire-weather score — near Camptonville 64.7 highest fire-weather score — near Loma Rica What drives it ## Which part of the risk _moves_, and which doesn't The county shows a clear place-to-place split in exposure. Challenge has a community median score of 78.8 and Brownsville is 75.0, while Marysville is 32.2. Camptonville (72.5) and Loma Rica (67.0) are also elevated compared with Plumas Lake at 31.8. In practical terms, nearby communities can sit in very different parts of the county risk range. Each bar is what one part of the score covers across Yuba 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 Loma Rica Vegetation & fuels 15.8–78.2 highest near Loma Rica Hazard zone 10–93.7 highest near Camptonville Fire history 5–95 highest near Wheatland Fire weather 55.5–64.7 highest near Loma Rica Overall score 18.9–82.5 highest near Loma Rica 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 Plumas Lake near Loma Rica 159 Vegetation & fuels 15.8 58 78.2 near Linda Loma Rica 159 Hazard zone 10 70 93.7 Plumas Lake Camptonville 159 Fire history 5 90 95 Marysville Wheatland 159 Fire weather 55.5 64.7 64.7 Camptonville Loma Rica 49 Composite 18.9 64.9 82.5 near Marysville near Loma Rica 159 Independently of Satelife's layers, the USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities grid puts the county's mean annual burn probability at **1.16%** (90th percentile cell: **3.11%**), with a mean conditional flame length of **9.39 ft**. **94%** of the 15,425 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 **24** of the 159 sampled points — the zones cover Local Responsibility Areas. At **24** of them the USFS grid above supplied the hazard reading instead. 159 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 property context, hazard-zone scores span from 10.0 in Plumas Lake to 93.7 in Camptonville, with a county middle of 70.0. Fire-history scores are also high in many places: the middle is 90.0, with 95.0 in Wheatland and 5.0 in Marysville. The USFS Wildfire Risk to Communities model reports a mean annual burn probability of 1.16%, with 3.11% in its 90th-percentile cells. It also indicates that 94.1% of Yuba County is in areas that can burn. At the county level, FEMA’s National Risk Index rates overall wildfire risk as Relatively Moderate, while rating all-hazards risk, social vulnerability, and community resilience as Relatively Low. Across 159 sampled points in Yuba County, the score runs from 18.9 to 82.5 — 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 Yuba 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. Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan Coverage ## ZIP codes we cover in Yuba County Every one of the 27 ZIP areas that touch Yuba 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** 6 ZIPs - [95925 Challenge79](/wildfire-risk/zip/95925/) - [95930 Challenge79](/wildfire-risk/zip/95930/) - [95966 Brownsville77](/wildfire-risk/zip/95966/) - [95962 Loma Rica76](/wildfire-risk/zip/95962/) - [95922 Camptonville76](/wildfire-risk/zip/95922/) - [95935 Challenge75](/wildfire-risk/zip/95935/) **High** 6 ZIPs - [95919 Brownsville75](/wildfire-risk/zip/95919/) - [95977 Loma Rica73](/wildfire-risk/zip/95977/) - [95981 Camptonville73](/wildfire-risk/zip/95981/) - [95918 Loma Rica72](/wildfire-risk/zip/95918/) - [95960 Camptonville71](/wildfire-risk/zip/95960/) - [95903 Wheatland54](/wildfire-risk/zip/95903/) **Moderate** 3 ZIPs - [95692 Wheatland40](/wildfire-risk/zip/95692/) - [95901 Loma Rica39](/wildfire-risk/zip/95901/) - [95961 Plumas Lake35](/wildfire-risk/zip/95961/) **No sampled point inside** 12 ZIPs [95648 Wheatland](/wildfire-risk/zip/95648/) · [95659 Plumas Lake](/wildfire-risk/zip/95659/) · [95674 Wheatland](/wildfire-risk/zip/95674/) · [95681 Wheatland](/wildfire-risk/zip/95681/) · [95914 Loma Rica](/wildfire-risk/zip/95914/) · [95941 Challenge](/wildfire-risk/zip/95941/) · [95946 Loma Rica](/wildfire-risk/zip/95946/) · [95953 Marysville](/wildfire-risk/zip/95953/) · [95959 Camptonville](/wildfire-risk/zip/95959/) · [95965 Brownsville](/wildfire-risk/zip/95965/) · [95972 Brownsville](/wildfire-risk/zip/95972/) · [95991 Plumas Lake](/wildfire-risk/zip/95991/) Grouped from 15 of 27 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 ## Yuba County wildfire risk _in context_ [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 Yuba County address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta) FAQ ## Frequently asked questions about _Yuba County wildfire risk_ What does the wildfire score mean? Scores run from 0 to 100, and higher scores mean higher wildfire exposure at that location. Does most of Yuba County fall in high tiers? In the places scored, the biggest group is High (62 points), followed by Very High (41 points). Moderate has 48 points, and Low has 8. What is the most recent large fire in the county? Cascade (2017) is the most recent large fire, and it is also listed as the largest, at 16,141 acres. How much of the county has burned since 1984? 56,211 acres have burned since 1984, which equals 13.7% of Yuba County. What does FEMA say about county-wide wildfire risk? FEMA’s National Risk Index rates Yuba County’s wildfire risk as Relatively Moderate, and its expected annual wildfire loss as Relatively Moderate. This page is generated from a Yuba 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. ## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer? A 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. [Start with your address →](/#cta) [![PRR](/images/prr.png)](/ficha-de-website-voucher-satelife.pdf) © 2024–2026 Satelife, Lda. All rights reserved. Satelife reports are for informational purposes only and do not constitute insurance, financial, or legal advice.