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title: "UrbanStat Classified Over 95% of Areas Burned in Dixie Fire as High or Worse Risk"
description: "As California's Dixie Fire exploded in size, we analyzed our model's performance. Over 95% of burned areas were classified as High or worse risk by UrbanStat's pre-season wildfire risk map."
url: https://www.urbanstat.com/insights/dixie-fire-95-percent-areas-classified/
type: Company blog article
publisher: UrbanStat
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*Illustration: A fire perimeter on forested terrain, with the pre-season risk map above it: the High-risk area covers almost all of the perimeter*

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# UrbanStat Classified Over 95% of Areas Burned in Dixie Fire as High or Worse Risk

California's Dixie Fire has been exploding in size in recent days due to high winds and hot temperatures. Currently the fire is in the top 20 of largest fires in California's history based on Cal Fire data.

As the fire started growing in size, we decided to take a closer look into our model's performance. UrbanStat releases a wildfire risk map for California and 4 other states in the west coast every year prior to the wildfire season. Then at the end of the wildfire season we evaluate our performance and release our results.

Occasionally, we look at current wildfires and release initial results as the fires get bigger in size in a short period of time. Dixie fire is, for the most part, burning in High or worse risk areas according to UrbanStat's wildfire risk map.

![Dixie Fire burning in High or worse risk areas on UrbanStat Wildfire Risk Map](https://www.urbanstat.com/assets/dixie-fire-95.webp)

Based on the fire perimeter data and our risk map, over 95% of the burned areas were classified as High or worse risk in January, 2021.

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