Burnt Ranch, California.
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to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$1,997 (+100%) since Jan 2020.
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- California$3,997
- United States$1,922
Living in Burnt Ranch, Trinity County, California
Burnt Ranch, in Trinity County, had 250 people in the 2020 census. Unemployment in Trinity County was 5.5% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% fewer jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Trinity County work in schools and health care, then restaurants and hotels.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Burnt Ranch is a very small community in Trinity County, with far fewer people than most places a visitor would think of as a town. Winters are cold, with the coldest weather in December, while summers turn properly hot, and July is the warmest month. Snow is light, but there is a fair amount of rain through the year.
Work. Most residents who work do so in schools, hospitals and social care, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, in farming, forestry and mining, or in shops. Across Trinity County, the largest workplaces include Trinity Hospital, Trinity River Lumber Company and the Trinity Alps Unified school district. Incomes across the county sit below those in much of California, and the county has lost a few jobs over the past year.
Things to do. The New River runs in or beside town, so water is close at hand. Grouse Creek, a river in neighboring Humboldt County, is a short drive away. A longer drive brings you to the Trinity Alps Wilderness, a protected area of mountain country, and to the Trinity River itself.
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What people in Trinity County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Trinity County had 2,894 jobs in 2025, 0.8% fewer than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in December, with highs near 48° and lows near 34°; warmest in July, with highs near 96° and lows near 53°. About 3 inches of snow and 36 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Big Bar East weather station, 16 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Trinity County
- Trinity HospitalCritical access hospital161FTE
- Trinity River Lumber CompanyDimension lumber, made from logs or bolts150
- Trinity Alps UnifiedSchool district96FTE
- North State Grocery Group445110 supermarkets and other grocery retailers71
- Camp BasinChildren's camps60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture60
- Forest ServiceFederal government · Department of Agriculture55
- Mountain Valley UnifiedSchool district52FTE
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 312 people in all across the county; Burnt Ranch has none of its own. Hospitals come from their Medicare cost reports (CMS, 2023), school districts from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireVery high
- Inland floodingVery high
- LandslidesRelatively high
- EarthquakesRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Burnt Ranch’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Trinity County.
Burnt Ranch home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
Not enough data to draw this yet.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Burnt Ranch6
Zip codes with a Burnt Ranch address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Burnt Ranch — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.