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title: "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 96118 (Loyalton), CA | Satelife"
description: "ZIP 96118 in Loyalton, Sierra County, CA: the points we sampled inside it score a median 62.1 out of 100 (High), against 26.4–82.7 across Sierra County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP."
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ZIP 96118 · Loyalton, Sierra County, CA

# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 96118_, Loyalton

The points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **62.1** out of 100 — **High**, about the same as the Sierra County middle of 61.4. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.

[Score my 96118 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Sierra County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/)

At a glance

## What we measured in _96118_

62.1 median of the 21 sampled points inside this ZIP · High

26.4–82.7 the range across Sierra County, from 154 points

63% of the way up the county's measured range

Loyalton 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 96118 also reaches into Plumas County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Plumas County side measured 44.8 from 2 points.

What does your 96118 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 96118 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/).

Bear Fire 2024 · 3,323 acres · Sierra County 6_km away_

Cottonwood Fire 1994 · 48,111 acres · Sierra County 7_km away_

Elephant Fire 2026 · 13,930 acres · Sierra County 12_km away_

Loyalton Fire 2020 · 47,029 acres · Sierra County 14_km away_

Balls Canyon Fire 2007 · 4,555 acres · Sierra County 18_km away_

Where to go next

## ZIP 96118 _in context_

[Wildfire risk in Sierra County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/) [Wildfire risk in Plumas County This ZIP also reaches into Plumas County](/wildfire-risk/california/plumas-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 96118 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)

This page is built from the Sierra County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 21 fell inside ZIP 96118. 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.

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