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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 95959 (Downieville), CA | Satelife",
  "description": "ZIP 95959 in Downieville, Sierra County, CA: no sampled point fell inside it, and the nearest one we measured — 11.4 km away — scores 67.7 out of 100 (High). The county runs 26.4–82.7.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›[Sierra County](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/)›ZIP 95959\n\nZIP 95959 · Downieville, Sierra County, CA\n\n# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 95959_, Downieville\n\nOur sampling grid has no point inside this ZIP. The nearest one, **11.4 km** away near near Downieville, scores **67.7** out of 100 — **High**, above the Sierra County middle of 61.4.\n\n[Score my 95959 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Sierra County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/)\n\nAt a glance\n\n## What we measured in _95959_\n\n67.7 nearest measured point — 11.4 km from this ZIP's centre · High\n\n26.4–82.7 the range across Sierra County, from 154 points\n\n73% of the way up the county's measured range\n\nDownieville nearest mapped community to this ZIP's centre\n\nThe 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. Our grid samples the county about every 2.3 km, and this ZIP is small enough to sit between two of those points — so the number above is the closest reading to it, not a reading of 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.\n\nZIP 95959 also reaches into Yuba County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Yuba County side measured 70.7 from 1 points.\n\nWhat does your 95959 address score?\n\nThe 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.\n\nFree to request · PDF report with a 0–100 score, the drivers behind it, and a mitigation plan\n\nFire record\n\n## The fires _nearest to here_\n\nDistances are from the centre of ZIP 95959 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 [Sierra County page](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/).\n\nMountain House Fire 1959 · 18,522 acres · Sierra County 16_km away_\n\nMountain House Fire 1959 · 18,522 acres · Yuba County 16_km away_\n\nIndian Fire 1987 · 9,243 acres · Sierra County 24_km away_\n\nYuba Fire 2009 · 3,829 acres · Yuba County 27_km away_\n\nPendola Fire 1999 · 12,324 acres · Yuba County 30_km away_\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## ZIP 95959 _in context_\n\n[Wildfire risk in Sierra County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/) [Wildfire risk in Yuba County This ZIP also reaches into Yuba County](/wildfire-risk/california/yuba-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 95959 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nThis page is built from the Sierra County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which none fell inside ZIP 95959 — the reading above is the closest sampled point, 11.4 km from its centre. 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.\n\n## What does _your parcel_ look like, layer by layer?\n\nA 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.\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."
}