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Is Palos Verdes Estates in a fire hazard severity zone?
52.7% of Palos Verdes Estates is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 44.5% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Palos Verdes Estates ranks 613 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 1.68 sq mi Very High, 0.43 sq mi High, 0.39 sq mi Moderate, out of 4.74 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 44.5% is 12.1 points above the 32.4% of Los Angeles County. The median home value of $2,000,001 is 155% above the county median of $783,300. Among 142 places in the county it ranks 36 for exposure; Pepperdine University ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is (unnamed) in 1990. By decade: 1950s: 4, 1960s: 1, 1970s: 4, 1990s: 1. Seismic maps cover Palos Verdes Estates with liquefaction 0.3%, landslide 11.0%.
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 Palos Verdes Estates
The state record shows 10 since 1950. The largest was (unnamed) in 1956 (82 acres in total).
- (unnamed) (1990), 14 acres
- (unnamed) (1976), 1 acres
- (unnamed) (1975), 3 acres
- (unnamed) (1973), 9 acres
- (unnamed) (1970), 33 acres
- (unnamed) (1963), 30 acres
- (unnamed) (1959), 18 acres
- (unnamed) (1958), 56 acres
- (unnamed) (1956), 82 acres
- (unnamed) (1953), 28 acres
Nearby places compared
- Rolling Hills, 3.5 mi southeast: 91.4% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $2,000,001
- Rolling Hills Estates, 4.2 mi east: 6.8% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $1,602,300
- Lomita, 4.9 mi east: 0.4% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $792,100
- Torrance, 5.0 mi northeast: 0.5% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $1,036,600
- Redondo Beach, 5.1 mi north: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $1,225,400
- Rancho Palos Verdes, 5.3 mi east: 40.9% High or Very High, 22 fires, median home $1,541,400
- Hermosa Beach, 5.7 mi north: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $2,000,001
- West Carson, 6.9 mi northeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $647,100
- Manhattan Beach, 7.3 mi north: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $2,000,001
- Lawndale, 7.9 mi north: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $726,000
- Alondra Park, 8.3 mi northeast: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $791,800
- El Segundo, 9.2 mi north: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $1,521,600