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Is Lake Isabella in a fire hazard severity zone?
28.1% of Lake Isabella is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 25.7% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Lake Isabella ranks 764 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 3.61 sq mi Very High, 2.07 sq mi High, 0.53 sq mi Moderate, out of 22.12 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 25.7% is 4.4 points below the 30.1% of Kern County. The median home value of $112,200 is 64% below the county median of $310,600. Among 88 places in the county it ranks 34 for exposure; Fellows ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is PEARL in 2025. By decade: 1950s: 1, 1960s: 3, 1970s: 5, 1980s: 7, 1990s: 8, 2000s: 12, 2010s: 9, 2020s: 6. The state has not evaluated Lake Isabella 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 Lake Isabella
The state record shows 51 since 1950. The largest was ERSKINE in 2016 (48,008 acres in total).
- PEARL (2025), 40 acres
- REEDER (2024), 1 acres
- GRANITE (2023), 178 acres
- FRENCH (2021), 26,535 acres
- YANKEE (2021), 35 acres
- PINEY (2020), 22 acres
- ERSKINE (2016), 48,008 acres
- DUTCH (2016), 27 acres
- RIO (2013), 3 acres
- KEM (2013), 4 acres
- PASADENA (2012), 1 acres
- GULCH (2012), 385 acres
Nearby places compared
- Mountain Mesa, 4.6 mi east: 41.9% High or Very High, 3 fires, median home $219,800
- Bodfish, 4.8 mi south: 56.0% High or Very High, 29 fires, median home $104,700
- Squirrel Mountain Valley, 4.8 mi east: 99.9% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $345,500
- Wofford Heights, 5.1 mi north: 66.8% High or Very High, 20 fires, median home $196,600
- Kernville, 7.1 mi northeast: 36.1% High or Very High, 29 fires, median home $357,100
- Alta Sierra, 7.2 mi northwest: 69.4% High or Very High, 2 fires
- Weldon, 9.5 mi east: 54.9% High or Very High, 11 fires, median home $153,300
- Glennville, 14.0 mi northwest: 100.0% High or Very High, 0 fires
- Panorama Heights, 14.1 mi northwest: 51.5% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $262,500
- Poso Park, 14.7 mi northwest: 96.0% High or Very High, 0 fires
- Sugarloaf Village, 15.5 mi northwest: 83.5% High or Very High, 0 fires
- McClenney Tract, 15.5 mi northwest: 55.8% High or Very High, 0 fires