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Is Santa Clarita in a fire hazard severity zone?
84.1% of Santa Clarita is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 79.9% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Santa Clarita ranks 336 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 54.31 sq mi Very High, 4.56 sq mi High, 3.09 sq mi Moderate, out of 73.66 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 79.9% is 47.5 points above the 32.4% of Los Angeles County. The median home value of $721,000 is 8% below the county median of $783,300. Among 142 places in the county it ranks 20 for exposure; Pepperdine University ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is VICTOR in 2023. By decade: 1950s: 9, 1960s: 13, 1970s: 17, 1980s: 33, 1990s: 17, 2000s: 14, 2010s: 16, 2020s: 5. Seismic maps cover Santa Clarita with fault zone 1.5%, liquefaction 35.4%, landslide 20.4%.
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 Santa Clarita
The state record shows 124 since 1950. The largest was CLAMPITT in 1970 (115,537 acres in total).
- VICTOR (2023), 57 acres
- RYE (2021), 1 acres
- NORTH (2021), 552 acres
- CALGROVE (2020), 4 acres
- ELSMERE (2020), 159 acres
- SADDLE RIDGE (2019), 8,799 acres
- TICK (2019), 4,582 acres
- SOUTH (2018), 175 acres
- CHARLIE (2018), 3,351 acres
- PLACERITA (2017), 760 acres
- RYE (2017), 6,048 acres
- SAND (2016), 41,383 acres
Earthquake fault zone maps
Santa Clarita touches the Newhall, Oat Mountain maps.
Nearby places compared
- Stevenson Ranch, 6.2 mi west: 88.5% High or Very High, 17 fires, median home $1,033,300
- Castaic, 9.2 mi northwest: 94.4% High or Very High, 25 fires, median home $710,400
- San Fernando, 9.5 mi south: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $630,700
- Val Verde, 10.3 mi west: 96.9% High or Very High, 23 fires, median home $526,000
- Hasley Canyon, 11.0 mi northwest: 100.0% High or Very High, 18 fires, median home $1,134,900
- Agua Dulce, 11.9 mi northeast: 94.1% High or Very High, 25 fires, median home $907,600
- Green Valley, 14.6 mi north: 16.0% High or Very High, 7 fires, median home $369,600
- Santa Susana, 14.9 mi southwest: 100.0% High or Very High, 12 fires, median home $697,200
- Piru, 17.7 mi west: 50.0% High or Very High, 7 fires, median home $586,400
- Elizabeth Lake, 17.7 mi north: 95.0% High or Very High, 17 fires, median home $381,500
- Leona Valley, 17.9 mi northeast: 86.2% High or Very High, 22 fires, median home $668,000
- Acton, 18.0 mi east: 97.2% High or Very High, 30 fires, median home $695,300