ZIP 96135 · Portola, Plumas County, CA

Wildfire risk in ZIP 96135, Portola

The points we sampled inside this ZIP score a median of 54.4 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.

At a glance

What we measured in 96135

54.4 median of the 2 sampled points inside this ZIP · High
34.5–82 the range across Plumas County, from 158 points
42% 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 96135 also reaches into Sierra County — postal areas do not stop at county lines. Its Sierra County side measured 50 from 1 points.

What does your 96135 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.

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Fire record

The fires nearest to here

Distances are from the centre of ZIP 96135 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.

Elephant Fire 2026 · 13,930 acres · Sierra County 12km away
Sugar Fire 2021 · 105,076 acres · Plumas County 14km away
Loyalton Fire 2020 · 47,029 acres · Sierra County 15km away
Balls Canyon Fire 2007 · 4,555 acres · Sierra County 20km away
Bear Fire 2024 · 3,323 acres · Sierra County 22km away
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ZIP 96135 in context

This page is built from the Plumas County data pack: risk samples on a grid across the county, of which 2 fell inside ZIP 96135. 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.

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