ZIP 94596 · Castle Hill, Contra Costa County, CA

Wildfire risk in ZIP 94596, Castle Hill

The points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of 35.9 out of 100 — Moderate, above the Contra Costa County middle of 32.6. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.

At a glance

What we measured in 94596

35.9 median of the 3 sampled points inside this ZIP · Moderate
12.7–77.4 the range across Contra Costa County, from 194 points
36% of the way up the county's measured range
Castle Hill nearest mapped community to this ZIP's centre

The four tiers on this page are the ones a Satelife address report prints — Low below 25, Moderate to 50, High to 75, Very High above it. A ZIP is a postal area, so the number above is the middle of what we measured inside it. Either way, two houses in this ZIP can sit in different tiers, and the only way to know which is to score the parcel.

What does your 94596 address score?

The ZIP number above is a neighbourhood median. Slope, the fuel touching the structure, the road out and the fire history within a mile are measured at the address itself.

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Fire record

The fires nearest to here

Distances are from the centre of ZIP 94596 to the centre of each fire's mapped perimeter, so a large fire's edge may have come far closer than the number suggests. The full record for the county — every named fire, the acreage and the share of the county burned — is on the Contra Costa County page.

Mitchell Canyon Fire 1977 · 4,859 acres · Contra Costa County 9km away
Morgan Fire 2013 · 3,108 acres · Contra Costa County 12km away
State Park #2 Fire 1961 · 1,241 acres · Contra Costa County 12km away
Blackhawk Fire 1981 · 2,361 acres · Contra Costa County 15km away
Kirker Fire 2013 · 478 acres · Contra Costa County 15km away
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ZIP 94596 in context

This page is built from the Contra Costa County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 3 fell inside ZIP 94596. Scores are informational decision support — not a substitute for official evacuation orders, a fire-agency hazard determination, or an insurer's underwriting judgement, and never a measurement of any individual property.

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