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Fire hazard severity zones in Santa Barbara County
47.1% of Santa Barbara County is mapped in a fire hazard severity zone, and 41.5% in High or Very High, where the seller disclosures apply.
Very High zone29.1% of the area
High zone12.5%
Moderate zone5.5%
Earthquake fault zone0.0%
Liquefaction zone0.0%
Landslide zone0.0%
Not evaluated for seismic hazards100.0%: a zero above proves nothing there
Fires recorded since 1950354
Land area2,749.6 sq mi
Median home value (2019-2023)$735,700
Flood and dam zonesnot covered
Cities and places in Santa Barbara County
- Ballard (1%)
- Buellton (32%)
- Carpinteria (0%)
- Casmalia (52%)
- Cuyama (16%)
- Eastern Goleta Valley (41%)
- Garey (0%)
- Goleta (12%)
- Guadalupe (0%)
- Isla Vista (0%)
- Lompoc (15%)
- Los Alamos (81%)
- Los Olivos (9%)
- Mission Canyon (87%)
- Mission Hills (86%)
- Montecito (61%)
- New Cuyama (33%)
- Orcutt (8%)
- Santa Barbara (20%)
- Santa Maria (0%)
- Santa Ynez (0%)
- Sisquoc (7%)
- Solvang (40%)
- Summerland (64%)
- Toro Canyon (85%)
- University of California-Santa Barbara (0%)
- Vandenberg AFB (2%)
- Vandenberg Village (87%)
Percent of the area in High or Very High zones.
Fires recorded in or across Santa Barbara County
The state record shows 354 since 1950. The largest was THOMAS in 2017 (281,791 acres in total).
- MARIPOSA (2025), 23 acres
- REST (2025), 1 acres
- COUCH (2025), 0 acres
- CACHUMA (2025), 0 acres
- FOOTHILL (2025), 46 acres
- GIFFORD (2025), 131,614 acres
- REFUGIO (2024), 73 acres
- RIDGE (2024), 17 acres
- GRADE (2024), 24 acres
- RIVERVIEW (2024), 64 acres
- LAKE (2024), 38,610 acres
- FOX (2024), 6 acres
- HILL (2024), 1,383 acres
- GATE (2024), 12 acres
- OAK (2024), 42 acres