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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 95961 (Plumas Lake), CA | Satelife",
  "description": "ZIP 95961 in Plumas Lake, Yuba County, CA: the points we sampled inside it score a median 35.2 out of 100 (Moderate), against 18.9–82.5 across Yuba County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›[Yuba County](/wildfire-risk/california/yuba-county/)›ZIP 95961\n\nZIP 95961 · Plumas Lake, Yuba County, CA\n\n# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 95961_, Plumas Lake\n\nThe points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **35.2** out of 100 — **Moderate**, below the Yuba County middle of 64.9. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.\n\n[Score my 95961 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Yuba County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/yuba-county/)\n\nAt a glance\n\n## What we measured in _95961_\n\n35.2 median of the 14 sampled points inside this ZIP · Moderate\n\n18.9–82.5 the range across Yuba County, from 159 points\n\n26% of the way up the county's measured range\n\nPlumas Lake 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. 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.\n\nZIP 95961 also reaches into Sutter County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Sutter County side measured 35.3 from 1 points.\n\nWhat does your 95961 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 95961 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 [Yuba County page](/wildfire-risk/california/yuba-county/).\n\nMyrna Fire 2008 · 455 acres · Sutter County 5_km away_\n\nShockley Fire 1970 · 286 acres · Sutter County 10_km away_\n\nCamp Beale #2 Fire 1950 · 4,886 acres · Yuba County 24_km away_\n\nSouth Ridge Fire 2011 · 110 acres · Sutter County 27_km away_\n\nWest Butte Fire 2011 · 240 acres · Sutter County 28_km away_\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## ZIP 95961 _in context_\n\n[Wildfire risk in Yuba County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/california/yuba-county/) [Wildfire risk in Sutter County This ZIP also reaches into Sutter County](/wildfire-risk/california/sutter-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 95961 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nThis page is built from the Yuba County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 14 fell inside ZIP 95961. 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."
}