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Is this property in a wildfire risk area?

Flood has a mapped zone. Wildfire has nothing equivalent anywhere in the country, so nothing here returns a yes or a no. ParcelOps samples the national wildfire risk metrics at the point, which describe burn likelihood and exposure across the surrounding landscape, and returns the county and tract hazard index next to them. Both are modeled at a resolution far coarser than a lot line. What decides one house is defensible space, roof and vent construction, and whether a truck can get up the driveway, and none of those are in either model.

A point sampled from national landscape models, plus county and tract indexes.

Where this answer comes from.

Each of these has its own page naming the office that publishes it, how often it updates, and what it cannot answer. Rebuilt from the ParcelOps source directory on September 9, 2026.

Where this stops.

The part a search result will not tell you, and the part worth reading before this answer goes into a decision.

  • Insurers score with their own data and their own maps. A low modeled score is not a statement that a policy will be written or renewed.
  • Several states publish their own fire hazard severity maps with regulatory force behind them. Those are separate records and are not part of this answer.
  • A model built on landscape conditions lags the landscape. A fuel treatment, a recent burn, or new construction changes the ground before it changes the model.

Questions people ask alongside this one.

  • What census tract is this address in?

    Federal program designations are published by census tract, not by address. How to resolve an address to its state, county, tract, and block codes, and why the vintage matters.

  • Is this property in a flood zone?

    A flood zone answer is a letter read off a specific FEMA map panel with an effective date. What each zone means, and why outside a zone is not the same as safe.

  • Are there wetlands on this property?

    The national wetlands inventory is a map layer compiled from imagery, not a jurisdictional determination. What the classification codes mean and where the layer stops.

  • Is there a dam near this property?

    Listed dams near a point with hazard class and condition rating. Hazard class describes consequence, not likelihood, and proximity to a dam is not inundation risk.

  • Have earthquakes been recorded near this site?

    The published earthquake catalog around a coordinate, with magnitude, depth, and date. Why a quiet catalog is a statement about the instrument record, not about hazard.

  • What disasters have been declared in this county?

    Federal disaster declarations are made at county level. The declaration history, the flood insurance claim pattern, and what a declaration does and does not say about one address.

The lanes this question belongs to.

A lane page lists every source that kind of work reads, not only the ones behind this question, and states where the whole lane stops.

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