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title: "Wildfire Risk in ZIP 96129 (Portola), CA | Satelife"
description: "ZIP 96129 in Portola, Plumas County, CA: the points we sampled inside it score a median 63.6 out of 100 (High), against 34.5–82 across Plumas County. Wildfire risk is measured per parcel, not per ZIP."
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ZIP 96129 · Portola, Plumas County, CA

# Wildfire risk in _ZIP 96129_, Portola

The points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of **63.6** out of 100 — **High**, below the Plumas County middle of 68.7. That is a neighbourhood-scale reading, not a score for any address in it.

[Score my 96129 address →](#score-my-address) [Open the Plumas County page ↓](/wildfire-risk/california/plumas-county/)

At a glance

## What we measured in _96129_

63.6 median of the 7 sampled points inside this ZIP · High

34.5–82 the range across Plumas County, from 158 points

61% of the way up the county's measured range

Portola 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 96129 also reaches into Sierra County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Sierra County side measured 38.9 from 1 points.

What does your 96129 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 96129 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 [Plumas County page](/wildfire-risk/california/plumas-county/).

Sugar Fire 2021 · 105,076 acres · Plumas County 20_km away_

Elephant Fire 2026 · 13,930 acres · Sierra County 22_km away_

Loyalton Fire 2020 · 47,029 acres · Sierra County 24_km away_

Bear Fire 2024 · 3,323 acres · Sierra County 26_km away_

Cottonwood Fire 1994 · 48,111 acres · Sierra County 28_km away_

Where to go next

## ZIP 96129 _in context_

[Wildfire risk in Plumas County The full county page: fire record, what drives the score, communities](/wildfire-risk/california/plumas-county/) [Wildfire risk in Sierra County This ZIP also reaches into Sierra County](/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 96129 address PDF + score + mitigation plan](/#cta)

This page is built from the Plumas County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 7 fell inside ZIP 96129. 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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