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Is Duarte in a fire hazard severity zone?
25.5% of Duarte is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 22.6% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Duarte ranks 782 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 1.33 sq mi Very High, 0.18 sq mi High, 0.19 sq mi Moderate, out of 6.70 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 22.6% is 9.8 points below the 32.4% of Los Angeles County. The median home value of $710,700 is 9% below the county median of $783,300. Among 142 places in the county it ranks 50 for exposure; Pepperdine University ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is BOBCAT in 2020. By decade: 1950s: 4, 1960s: 1, 1970s: 2, 1980s: 2, 2010s: 1, 2020s: 1. Seismic maps cover Duarte with fault zone 5.8%, liquefaction 9.3%, landslide 43.9%.
Zones differ from street to street: check the address above. In Los Angeles County overall, 29.4% of the land is Very High.
Fires recorded in or across Duarte
The state record shows 11 since 1950. The largest was BOBCAT in 2020 (115,998 acres in total).
- BOBCAT (2020), 115,998 acres
- FISH (2016), 4,246 acres
- (unnamed) (1988), 28 acres
- STABLE (1980), 6,049 acres
- STAR PINE (1975), 115 acres
- (unnamed) (1974), 8 acres
- CANYON INN (1968), 19,056 acres
- (unnamed) (1958), 13,944 acres
- MADDOCK (1953), 558 acres
- BAIRD (1952), 138 acres
- SPINKS (1952), 179 acres
Earthquake fault zone maps
Duarte touches the Azusa map.
Nearby places compared
- Bradbury, 1.3 mi west: 90.1% High or Very High, 7 fires, median home $1,914,100
- Azusa, 2.8 mi southeast: 29.3% High or Very High, 20 fires, median home $607,400
- Monrovia, 3.0 mi west: 34.4% High or Very High, 16 fires, median home $891,700
- Irwindale, 3.6 mi south: 5.0% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $645,800
- South Monrovia Island, 3.6 mi southwest: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $660,800
- Citrus, 4.4 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $614,200
- Mayflower Village, 4.4 mi southwest: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $841,200
- Vincent, 4.5 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $609,900
- Baldwin Park, 5.4 mi south: 1.2% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $588,100
- Arcadia, 5.6 mi west: 11.4% High or Very High, 12 fires, median home $1,336,500
- Sierra Madre, 5.6 mi west: 62.4% High or Very High, 15 fires, median home $1,172,200
- North El Monte, 5.8 mi southwest: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $852,600