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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 96051 (Shasta Lake), CA | Satelife",
  "description": "ZIP 96051 in Shasta Lake, Shasta County, CA: the points we sampled inside it score a median 71.5 out of 100 (High), against 20–82.5 across Shasta County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP.",
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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›[Shasta County](/wildfire-risk/california/shasta-county/)›ZIP 96051\n\nZIP 96051 · Shasta Lake, Shasta County, CA\n\n# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 96051_, Shasta Lake\n\nThe points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **71.5** out of 100 — **High**, above the Shasta County middle of 66.5. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.\n\n[Score my 96051 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Shasta County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/shasta-county/)\n\nAt a glance\n\n## What we measured in _96051_\n\n71.5 median of the 14 sampled points inside this ZIP · High\n\n20–82.5 the range across Shasta County, from 162 points\n\n82% of the way up the county's measured range\n\nShasta 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 96051 also reaches into Trinity County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Trinity County side measured 48.9 from 1 points.\n\nWhat does your 96051 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 96051 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 [Shasta County page](/wildfire-risk/california/shasta-county/).\n\nHirz Fire 2018 · 40,608 acres · Shasta County 12_km away_\n\nDelta Fire 2018 · 63,506 acres · Shasta County 14_km away_\n\nBagley Fire 2012 · 46,040 acres · Shasta County 29_km away_\n\nCarr Fire 2018 · 229,686 acres · Shasta County 30_km away_\n\nJones Fire 1999 · 26,203 acres · Shasta County 30_km away_\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## ZIP 96051 _in context_\n\n[Wildfire risk in Shasta County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/california/shasta-county/) [Wildfire risk in Trinity County This ZIP also reaches into Trinity County](/wildfire-risk/california/trinity-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 96051 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)\n\nThis page is built from the Shasta County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 14 fell inside ZIP 96051. 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."
}