Damage Report · Greater Sacramento, California · July 2026

Sacramento Fire Damage Report: July 2026

Greater Sacramento — Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, and El Dorado counties — logged 381 damage incidents in July 2026, peaking on the 4th of July itself as fireworks season met the dry-season foothills.

At a glance

  • 381Damage incidents tracked in July 2026
  • ~12/dayAverage daily incident volume
  • 204Structure fires
  • 25%Share of incidents that were commercial fires

Incidents by type

Structure firesStructure fires: 204204Commercial firesCommercial fires: 9595Residential firesResidential fires: 8282
Verified incidents by type, Greater Sacramento, July 2026.

Estimated damage severity

Low damage: 150 incidents (39%)39%Medium damage: 167 incidents (44%)44%High damage: 64 incidents (17%)17%
Low · 150 incidentsMedium · 167 incidentsHigh · 64 incidents
Estimated damage severity split, Greater Sacramento, July 2026.

Busiest cities

SacramentoSacramento: 144144DavisDavis: 2323Elk GroveElk Grove: 2222West SacramentoWest Sacramento: 1919WoodlandWoodland: 1414RocklinRocklin: 1313
Incidents by city, top 6, July 2026.

Peak day: July 4 (27 incidents). Counties covered: Sacramento, Yolo, Placer, El Dorado.

What stood out

  • The region peaked on July 4th itself — 27 incidents in a single day, more than double the daily average.
  • Commercial fires took an unusually large share: 95 of 381 incidents (25%), the kind of large-loss mix adjusters watch for.
  • 231 incidents (61%) carried medium or high damage estimates — a severity-dense month for a mid-sized territory.

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Methodology: incident counts reflect verified fire and water damage incidents surfaced to FirstLeads subscribers in the Greater Sacramento throughout July 2026, aggregated from FirstLeads' real-time incident monitoring network and frozen as a monthly snapshot at publish time. Damage severity is estimated from emergency response signals at the time of the incident.

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