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Is Santa Paula in a fire hazard severity zone?
58.3% of Santa Paula is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 47.5% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Santa Paula ranks 588 of 1050 California places for the share of land in High or Very High zones.
In land area, that is 1.92 sq mi Very High, 0.79 sq mi High, 0.61 sq mi Moderate, out of 5.69 sq mi. Its High and Very High share of 47.5% is 8.8 points above the 38.7% of Ventura County. The median home value of $559,300 is 27% below the county median of $768,400. Among 24 places in the county it ranks 16 for exposure; Bell Canyon ranks first at 100.0%. The latest recorded fire is MARIA in 2025. By decade: 1960s: 1, 1980s: 2, 1990s: 1, 2000s: 1, 2010s: 7, 2020s: 4. Seismic maps cover Santa Paula with liquefaction 37.7%, landslide 3.6%.
Zones differ from street to street: check the address above. In Ventura County overall, 36.2% of the land is Very High.
Fires recorded in or across Santa Paula
The state record shows 16 since 1950. The largest was THOMAS in 2017 (281,791 acres in total).
- MARIA (2025), 59 acres
- MOUNTAIN (2024), 19,902 acres
- LAURIE (2021), 3 acres
- PECK (2021), 2 acres
- MARIA (2019), 10,042 acres
- MARIA (2018), 0 acres
- TELEGRAPH (2018), 7 acres
- CORONADO (2018), 2 acres
- FORK (2017), 2 acres
- THOMAS (2017), 281,791 acres
- RIVER (2015), 165 acres
- SIMI (2003), 107,570 acres
Nearby places compared
- Saticoy, 6.9 mi southwest: 19.6% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $353,800
- Somis, 7.4 mi southeast: 69.3% High or Very High, 2 fires, median home $1,158,700
- Fillmore, 8.8 mi east: 56.2% High or Very High, 6 fires, median home $567,500
- Camarillo, 9.2 mi south: 19.0% High or Very High, 19 fires, median home $766,100
- El Rio, 9.5 mi southwest: 0.0% High or Very High, 0 fires, median home $639,600
- Moorpark, 11.5 mi southeast: 87.7% High or Very High, 13 fires, median home $852,800
- Santa Rosa Valley, 11.9 mi southeast: 99.9% High or Very High, 5 fires, median home $1,663,800
- San Buenaventura (Ventura), 12.0 mi southwest: 27.3% High or Very High, 25 fires, median home $778,700
- Ojai, 12.1 mi northwest: 72.7% High or Very High, 9 fires, median home $947,000
- Oxnard, 13.5 mi southwest: 5.6% High or Very High, 7 fires, median home $617,800
- Casa Conejo, 13.5 mi southeast: 9.1% High or Very High, 1 fire, median home $813,300
- Meiners Oaks, 13.8 mi northwest: 86.7% High or Very High, 9 fires, median home $669,000