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Is Keene in a fire hazard severity zone?
100.0% of Keene is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 100.0% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Keene ranks 85 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 7.51 sq mi Very High, 1.96 sq mi High, out of 9.47 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 100.0% is 69.9 points above the 30.1% of Kern County. The median home value of $280,100 is 10% below the county median of $310,600. Among 88 places in the county it ranks 5 for exposure; Fellows ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is BEALE in 2023. By decade: 1970s: 1, 2000s: 1, 2010s: 3, 2020s: 5. The state has not evaluated Keene 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 Keene
The state record shows 10 since 1950. The largest was KEENE #1 in 1974 (1,039 acres in total).
- BEALE (2023), 61 acres
- CUMMINGS (2022), 1 acres
- HART (2022), 2 acres
- BEAR (2022), 16 acres
- FLAT (2020), 40 acres
- KEENE (2016), 1 acres
- (unnamed) (2012), 0 acres
- CALIENTE (2010), 48 acres
- MOUNTAIN (2007), 841 acres
- KEENE #1 (1974), 1,039 acres
Earthquake fault zone maps
Keene touches the Bear Mountain, Bena maps.
Nearby places compared
- Bear Valley Springs, 4.7 mi southwest: 98.2% High or Very High, 8 fires, median home $478,900
- Golden Hills, 9.2 mi southeast: 84.5% High or Very High, 7 fires, median home $376,300
- Stallion Springs, 9.3 mi south: 95.4% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $405,200
- Edmundson Acres, 11.4 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $209,400
- Arvin, 11.9 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $247,800
- Tehachapi, 12.1 mi southeast: 70.4% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $344,700
- Di Giorgio, 12.6 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires
- Mountain Meadows, 13.8 mi southeast: 100.0% High or Very High, 2 fires, median home $460,000
- Tarina, 14.9 mi northwest: 23.1% High or Very High, 9 fires
- Edison, 16.2 mi northwest: 0.0% High or Very High, 2 fires, median home $180,200
- Weedpatch, 16.3 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $135,700
- Lamont, 16.6 mi west: 0.0% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $210,700