--- title: "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 95017 (Boulder Creek), CA | Satelife" description: "ZIP 95017 in Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County, CA: the points we sampled inside it score a median 65.7 out of 100 (High), against 8.7–78.4 across Santa Cruz County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP." image: "https://satelife.ai/images/img_01.jpg" canonical: "https://satelife.ai/wildfire-risk/zip/95017/" --- [Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›[Santa Cruz County](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-cruz-county/)›ZIP 95017 ZIP 95017 · Boulder Creek, Santa Cruz County, CA # Wildfire risk in _ZIP 95017_, Boulder Creek The points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **65.7** out of 100 — **High**, above the Santa Cruz County middle of 49.8. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it. [Score my 95017 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Santa Cruz County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-cruz-county/) At a glance ## What we measured in _95017_ 65.7 median of the 19 sampled points inside this ZIP · High 8.7–78.4 the range across Santa Cruz County, from 180 points 82% of the way up the county's measured range Boulder Creek 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. ZIP 95017 also reaches into San Mateo County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its San Mateo County side measured 13.8 from 1 points. What does your 95017 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. Free to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan Fire record ## The fires _nearest to here_ Distances are from the centre of ZIP 95017 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 [Santa Cruz County page](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-cruz-county/). Lockheed Fire 2009 · 7,783 acres · Santa Cruz County 3_km away_ Lincoln Hill Fire 1962 · 3,236 acres · San Mateo County 11_km away_ 2017 Broadcast Burn Fire 2017 · 128 acres · San Mateo County 11_km away_ Lincoln Hill Fire 1962 · 3,236 acres · Santa Cruz County 11_km away_ Newell Creek #2 Fire 1959 · 1,327 acres · Santa Cruz County 14_km away_ Where to go next ## ZIP 95017 _in context_ [Wildfire risk in Santa Cruz County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/california/santa-cruz-county/) [Wildfire risk in San Mateo County This ZIP also reaches into San Mateo County](/wildfire-risk/california/san-mateo-county/) [California wildfire risk Every county we publish in the state](/wildfire-risk/california/) [How Satelife calculates wildfire risk Data sources, layers, score composition, honest limits](/wildfire-risk/methodology/) [Run a report for a 95017 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta) This page is built from the Santa Cruz County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 19 fell inside ZIP 95017. 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. ## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer? A ZIP median is the middle of a neighbourhood. 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.