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  "title": "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 96126 (Sierraville), CA | Satelife",
  "description": "ZIP 96126 in Sierraville, Sierra County, CA: the points we sampled inside it score a median 54.8 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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  "content": "[Home](/)›[Wildfire Risk](/wildfire-risk/)›[California](/wildfire-risk/california/)›[Sierra County](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/)›ZIP 96126\n\nZIP 96126 · Sierraville, Sierra County, CA\n\n# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 96126_, Sierraville\n\nThe points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **54.8** out of 100 — **High**, below the Sierra County middle of 61.4. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.\n\n[Score my 96126 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Sierra County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/sierra-county/)\n\nAt a glance\n\n## What we measured in _96126_\n\n54.8 median of the 8 sampled points inside this ZIP · High\n\n26.4–82.7 the range across Sierra County, from 154 points\n\n50% of the way up the county's measured range\n\nSierraville 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\nWhat does your 96126 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 96126 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\nCottonwood Fire 1994 · 48,111 acres · Sierra County 18_km away_\n\nBear Fire 2024 · 3,323 acres · Sierra County 18_km away_\n\nDonner Ridge Fire 1960 · 43,374 acres · Sierra County 21_km away_\n\nElephant Fire 2026 · 13,930 acres · Sierra County 28_km away_\n\nLoyalton Fire 2020 · 47,029 acres · Sierra County 30_km away_\n\nWhere to go next\n\n## ZIP 96126 _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/) [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 96126 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 8 fell inside ZIP 96126. 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."
}