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Is Berry Creek in a fire hazard severity zone?
83.1% of Berry Creek is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 83.1% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Berry Creek ranks 317 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 47.46 sq mi Very High, out of 57.11 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 83.1% is 32.2 points above the 50.9% of Butte County. The median home value of $276,400 is 32% below the county median of $408,700. Among 30 places in the county it ranks 17 for exposure; Bangor ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is NORTH COMPLEX in 2020. By decade: 1950s: 3, 1960s: 1, 1980s: 1, 1990s: 3, 2000s: 3, 2010s: 2, 2020s: 1. The state has not evaluated Berry Creek for liquefaction or landslides, so the absence of a seismic hazard zone proves nothing.
Zones differ from street to street: check the address above. In Butte County overall, 37.6% of the land is Very High.
Fires recorded in or across Berry Creek
The state record shows 14 since 1950. The largest was NORTH COMPLEX in 2020 (318,797 acres in total).
- NORTH COMPLEX (2020), 318,797 acres
- SIMMONS (2018), 33 acres
- CAMP (2018), 153,336 acres
- FRIEND-DARNELL (2008), 4,112 acres
- UNION (2002), 58 acres
- BEAN (2002), 187 acres
- UNION (1999), 736 acres
- BEAN (1999), 1,785 acres
- BLOOMER (1999), 2,610 acres
- (unnamed) (1980), 285 acres
- PROJECT 19 (1966), 5,725 acres
- (unnamed) (1954), 140 acres
Nearby places compared
- Cherokee, 7.4 mi west: 99.6% High or Very High, 1 fire
- Kelly Ridge, 7.7 mi southwest: 92.4% High or Very High, 2 fires, median home $266,300
- Yankee Hill, 7.8 mi northwest: 99.2% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $592,400
- Oroville East, 9.4 mi southwest: 85.4% High or Very High, 10 fires, median home $381,900
- Forbestown, 9.7 mi southeast: 61.9% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $195,800
- Robinson Mill, 10.5 mi southeast: 96.9% High or Very High, 1 fire
- Concow, 12.0 mi northwest: 78.4% High or Very High, 9 fires
- Butte Valley, 12.5 mi west: 97.6% High or Very High, 14 fires, median home $492,400
- South Oroville, 12.6 mi southwest: 43.6% High or Very High, 2 fires, median home $248,400
- Oroville, 12.6 mi southwest: 9.7% High or Very High, 9 fires, median home $280,600
- Challenge-Brownsville, 13.2 mi southeast: 84.0% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $338,900
- Rackerby, 13.9 mi south: 100.0% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $387,500