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Is Los Angeles in a fire hazard severity zone?
38.7% of Los Angeles is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 36.5% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Los Angeles ranks 670 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 158.68 sq mi Very High, 14.63 sq mi High, 10.59 sq mi Moderate, out of 475.10 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 36.5% is 4.1 points above the 32.4% of Los Angeles County. The median home value of $879,500 is 12% above the county median of $783,300. Among 142 places in the county it ranks 40 for exposure; Pepperdine University ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is PALISADES in 2025. By decade: 1950s: 28, 1960s: 17, 1970s: 22, 1980s: 19, 1990s: 20, 2000s: 18, 2010s: 24, 2020s: 5. Seismic maps cover Los Angeles with fault zone 3.4%, liquefaction 27.7%, landslide 12.4%.
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 Los Angeles
The state record shows 153 since 1950. The largest was STATION in 2009 (160,833 acres in total).
- PALISADES (2025), 23,449 acres
- HURST (2025), 831 acres
- PALISADES (2021), 1,203 acres
- PEAK (2021), 1 acres
- TOPANGA (2020), 3 acres
- PALISADES 2 (2019), 45 acres
- PALERMO (2019), 2 acres
- GETTY (2019), 553 acres
- BARHAM (2019), 73 acres
- HOLLYWOOD HILLS (2019), 1 acres
- SADDLE RIDGE (2019), 8,799 acres
- WOOLSEY (2018), 89,551 acres
Earthquake fault zone maps
Los Angeles touches the Beverly Hills, Burbank, Hollywood, Inglewood, Los Angeles, Oat Mountain maps.
Nearby places compared
- View Park-Windsor Hills, 4.1 mi southwest: 12.4% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $1,123,300
- Florence-Graham, 4.4 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $499,100
- Huntington Park, 4.5 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $557,600
- Vernon, 4.8 mi east: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $675,000
- Walnut Park, 5.2 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $570,500
- Westmont, 5.2 mi south: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $617,300
- Ladera Heights, 5.4 mi west: 67.8% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $1,593,500
- Inglewood, 5.7 mi southwest: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $744,300
- Bell, 5.8 mi southeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $561,400
- Maywood, 5.8 mi east: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $595,000
- East Los Angeles, 6.5 mi east: 0.1% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $613,600
- West Athens, 6.7 mi south: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $666,100