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Is Rancho Mission Viejo in a fire hazard severity zone?
98.1% of Rancho Mission Viejo is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 97.2% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Rancho Mission Viejo ranks 164 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 35.88 sq mi Very High, 0.86 sq mi High, 0.34 sq mi Moderate, out of 37.79 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 97.2% is 59.8 points above the 37.4% of Orange County. The median home value of $1,039,300 is 14% above the county median of $915,500. Among 45 places in the county it ranks 3 for exposure; Williams Canyon ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is PICO in 2021. By decade: 1950s: 6, 1960s: 1, 1970s: 4, 1980s: 3, 1990s: 2, 2000s: 2, 2010s: 3, 2020s: 1. Seismic maps cover Rancho Mission Viejo with liquefaction 11.6%, landslide 24.1%.
Zones differ from street to street: check the address above. In Orange County overall, 32.7% of the land is Very High.
Fires recorded in or across Rancho Mission Viejo
The state record shows 22 since 1950. The largest was STEWARD in 1958 (68,106 acres in total).
- PICO (2021), 7 acres
- REATA (2016), 14 acres
- COW CAMP (2016), 11 acres
- TORTOISE (2016), 19 acres
- ORTEGA (2009), 142 acres
- TRW (2000), 445 acres
- RANCHO MISSION 4 (1993), 830 acres
- ORTEGA (1993), 21,012 acres
- MATEO (1989), 13,479 acres
- ORTEGA (1988), 2,471 acres
- RANCHO MISSION1A (1985), 831 acres
- ORTEGA (1979), 696 acres
Nearby places compared
- San Juan Capistrano, 4.7 mi west: 57.4% High or Very High, 8 fires, median home $929,700
- Ladera Ranch, 4.8 mi northwest: 64.2% High or Very High, 6 fires, median home $1,046,600
- Las Flores, 5.4 mi northwest: 96.8% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $1,068,900
- Coto de Caza, 5.7 mi north: 92.0% High or Very High, 10 fires, median home $1,419,400
- San Clemente, 6.1 mi southwest: 57.8% High or Very High, 11 fires, median home $1,220,500
- Rancho Santa Margarita, 7.7 mi north: 87.0% High or Very High, 12 fires, median home $907,900
- Mission Viejo, 7.7 mi northwest: 19.5% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $946,300
- Laguna Niguel, 8.1 mi west: 51.3% High or Very High, 6 fires, median home $1,123,000
- Dana Point, 8.1 mi southwest: 6.3% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $1,200,900
- Laguna Hills, 8.5 mi northwest: 3.4% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $944,000
- Aliso Viejo, 9.7 mi northwest: 33.8% High or Very High, 4 fires, median home $863,800
- Trabuco Canyon, 11.0 mi north: 97.7% High or Very High, 10 fires, median home $1,243,100