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Is Golden Hills in a fire hazard severity zone?
100.0% of Golden Hills is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 84.5% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Golden Hills ranks 302 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 2.20 sq mi Very High, 7.04 sq mi High, 1.70 sq mi Moderate, out of 10.94 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 84.5% is 54.4 points above the 30.1% of Kern County. The median home value of $376,300 is 21% above the county median of $310,600. Among 88 places in the county it ranks 12 for exposure; Fellows ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is MESA in 2024. By decade: 1960s: 1, 2010s: 1, 2020s: 5. The state has not evaluated Golden Hills 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 Kern County overall, 12.4% of the land is Very High.
Fires recorded in or across Golden Hills
The state record shows 7 since 1950. The largest was SULLIVAN RANCH in 1969 (477 acres in total).
- MESA (2024), 0 acres
- TREE (2023), 6 acres
- VISTA (2020), 35 acres
- LILAC (2020), 53 acres
- (unnamed) (2020), 2 acres
- MID (2017), 0 acres
- SULLIVAN RANCH (1969), 477 acres
Nearby places compared
- Tehachapi, 3.2 mi east: 70.4% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $344,700
- Mountain Meadows, 4.6 mi southeast: 100.0% High or Very High, 2 fires, median home $460,000
- Keene, 9.2 mi northwest: 100.0% High or Very High, 10 fires, median home $280,100
- Bear Valley Springs, 9.6 mi west: 98.2% High or Very High, 8 fires, median home $478,900
- Stallion Springs, 9.9 mi west: 95.4% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $405,200
- Arvin, 19.0 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $247,800
- Edmundson Acres, 19.2 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $209,400
- Mojave, 19.8 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 12 fires, median home $204,400
- Di Giorgio, 20.8 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires
- Tarina, 24.1 mi northwest: 23.1% High or Very High, 9 fires
- Weedpatch, 24.2 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $135,700
- Rosamond, 24.8 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 11 fires, median home $330,100