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Los Altos Hills Fire Hazard Severity Zones: How Many Houses Are in Each, Neighborhood by Neighborhood
Los Altos Hills adopted CAL FIRE’s fire hazard severity zone map in June 2025. We checked each of the town’s 3,017 single-family house parcels against that map: 443 (15%) have some part of the parcel in a Very High zone and 169 (6%) in a High zone. Here is where they are, neighborhood guide by neigh
Los Altos & Los Altos Hills Neighborhoods by Their Houses: Age, Size, Lots and Stories
County assessor records list the year built, living area, lot size, bedrooms and stories for houses in Los Altos and Los Altos Hills. We took the 10,335 single-family houses in the City of Los Altos’s parcel records (9,292 inside the city limit and 1,043 in the unincorporated county island around Lo
Palo Alto Flood Zones by Neighborhood: Where FEMA’s High-Risk Zones Are
FEMA’s flood maps put part of Palo Alto in high-risk flood zones. We checked the center of each of the city’s 14,625 single-family house parcels against FEMA’s National Flood Hazard Layer: 4,109 of them (28%) sit in a high-risk zone (A, AE or AH). Here is where they are, by neighborhood guide. FEMA’
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