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Calaveras November 2026 sale — 29 parcels, 24 of them at a quarter of assessed value or less, and every one in a high or very high fire hazard zone

What this is

Calaveras listed 41 parcels on Bid4Assets, and 12 were already withdrawn when we first read the list on November 9. That leaves 29 still offered. We took the county's land value, improvements and acreage for each from its lot page, and matched every one to the county's parcel outlines for a fire check and a road check.

24 of the 29 open at a quarter of the county's assessed value or less, and the median parcel opens at 0.18 times it. That is the reverse of Kern's September list, where the median parcel opened above assessed value. Fourteen have improvement value on the county's roll, and 12 of those are in the deep-discount bracket.

Every parcel is in a high or very high fire hazard zone on CAL FIRE's map: 24 very high and 5 high. A new building there has to meet the state's wildfire construction standards, and an insurance quote is the first number to get. Six lie inside the perimeter of the 2015 Butte Fire. Four have no mapped road frontage.

Bidding closes on November 16, and we will add each lot's result here.

How to read the columns

Bid ÷ assessed is the opening bid divided by the county's assessed value. Lower means a bigger paper discount. It is a screen, not a verdict: assessed value is a county figure, not a market appraisal, and in California it is anchored to the last change of ownership, so a long-held parcel can be assessed far under what it would fetch. County assessed is land plus improvements as the county gave them to Bid4Assets, before any homeowner's exemption. Screen puts each parcel in a bracket from that ratio, and Flags names the specific things that cost money. Use the copy button beside any APN to grab it.

Fire and road checks

Every parcel's outline, checked on November 12, 2026 against CAL FIRE's fire hazard map and fire perimeters and against the roads on OpenStreetMap. Each finding is a flag in the table.

4No mapped road frontage
0Private roads only
24Very high fire hazard zone
5High fire hazard zone
0Burned in the last 10 years

How this list has changed

From our dated reads of the lot list.

Nov 9:29 lots offered, 12 already withdrawn
Nov 12:29 lots, no change

An owner can still pay until the close of business on the last business day before the sale, so the list can still shrink.

Download CSV (29 parcels)

Calaveras County, CA November 2026 sale: 29 parcels. Columns: APN, Area, Acres, Opening bid, County assessed, Bid ÷ assessed, Screen, Flags. Missing values show as an em dash. With JavaScript the table is sortable and filterable; without it, the full pre-sorted list is still here.

050-016-125-000 Map	Wallace	5.00	$46,500	$491,311	0.095	Deep discount	High fire hazard zone Structure on record
016-018-070-000 Map	Mokelumne Hill	40.00	$20,000	$175,000	0.114	Deep discount	No mapped road frontage Very high fire hazard zone
034-002-009-000 Map	Sheep Ranch	64.18	$22,500	$191,887	0.117	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone
036-014-021-000 Map	Sheep Ranch	20.30	$44,000	$365,893	0.120	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
030-005-001-000 Map	Hathaway Pines	31.00	$68,000	$516,827	0.132	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
053-005-023-000 Map	Angels Camp	21.43	$38,200	$277,446	0.138	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
048-009-011-000 Map	Burson	2.81	$11,500	$76,612	0.150	Deep discount	High fire hazard zone Structure on record
016-025-015-000 Map	Mokelumne Hill	40.00	$21,000	$139,267	0.151	Deep discount	No mapped road frontage Very high fire hazard zone
020-028-083-000 Map	Railroad Flat	15.27	$20,000	$129,465	0.154	Deep discount	No mapped road frontage Very high fire hazard zone
016-018-037-000 Map	Mokelumne Hill	9.94	$43,000	$273,294	0.157	Deep discount	No mapped road frontage Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
021-005-039-000 Map	Mountain Ranch	5.00	$9,000	$56,885	0.158	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone
020-010-026-000 Map	Mountain Ranch	1.00	$8,000	$49,076	0.163	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
054-011-044-000 Map	Copperopolis	6.70	$35,000	$214,984	0.163	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
010-026-021-000 Map	Wilseyville	1.40	$8,900	$52,353	0.170	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone
008-013-013-000 Map	West Point	2.47	$13,200	$74,465	0.177	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
055-013-016-000 Map	Copperopolis	0.63	$6,000	$33,462	0.179	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
065-027-002-000 Map	Copperopolis	0.20	$3,000	$16,731	0.179	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone
098-022-003-000 Map	Copperopolis	1.17	$41,000	$206,365	0.199	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
002-018-030-000 Map	Tamarack	0.37	$6,200	$30,000	0.207	Deep discount	High fire hazard zone
055-029-008-000 Map	Copperopolis	0.70	$2,000	$9,671	0.207	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone
024-011-001-000 Map	Arnold	11.50	$4,000	$18,564	0.215	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone
002-018-029-000 Map	Tamarack	0.28	$6,500	$30,000	0.217	Deep discount	High fire hazard zone
061-012-001-000 Map	Copperopolis	1.00	$13,500	$61,348	0.220	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
061-013-027-000 Map	Copperopolis	1.10	$10,000	$44,161	0.226	Deep discount	Very high fire hazard zone
060-010-029-000 Map	Angels Camp	0.17	$1,600	$6,064	0.264	Discount	High fire hazard zone
061-031-005-000 Map	Copperopolis	0.06	$30,000	$83,659	0.359	Discount	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record
028-046-026-000 Map	Arnold	0.42	$1,600	$3,479	0.460	Discount	Very high fire hazard zone
026-017-026-000 Map	Arnold	0.02	$2,200	$2,230	0.987	Near value	Paper lot Very high fire hazard zone
061-031-023-000 Map	Copperopolis	0.07	$27,000	$23,206	1.16	Above assessed	Very high fire hazard zone Structure on record

What the screen says

Deep discount: Opens at a quarter of the county's assessed value or less.
Discount: Opens between a quarter and 60% of assessed value.
Near value: Opens between 60% and 100% of assessed value — little headroom.
Above assessed: Opens for MORE than the county's own total assessed value. You are paying a premium on day one, before costs.

Very high fire hazard zone: CAL FIRE's Fire Hazard Severity Zone map puts at least part of this parcel in its highest class. A new building here has to meet the state's wildfire construction standards (Chapter 7A of the Building Code), buildings need defensible space cleared up to 100 feet around them, and a seller has to disclose the zone. Get a fire insurance quote before you bid on land you plan to build on.
Structure on record: The county's records show something built here: improvement value on the assessor's roll, or a year built on its parcel map. That can be the asset or it can be the liability — a derelict building is a demolition bill, and an occupied one is a possession problem.
High fire hazard zone: CAL FIRE's Fire Hazard Severity Zone map puts at least part of this parcel in its High class. New buildings in High zones generally have to meet the state's wildfire construction standards, and a seller has to disclose the zone. Get a fire insurance quote before you bid on land you plan to build on.
No mapped road frontage: No road on OpenStreetMap comes within 30 m of this parcel's boundary. Land with no road to it needs a recorded easement across a neighbour's land, and without legal access a county can refuse a building permit. An easement does not show on any map, so search the Recorder's index or order a title report before you bid. The parcel page gives the nearest mapped road and its distance.
Paper lot: Under a tenth of an acre with nothing built on it. Too small to build on under most zoning — the classic legacy-subdivision lot that costs money to own and cannot be developed or easily resold.

29 parcels · every value traces to the county/auction source · download the full CSV

Source: Calaveras County's tax sale on Bid4Assets (storefront CalaverasNov26), lots read November 9 and 12, 2026, with the county's land value, improvements and acreage from each lot page, and parcel outlines from the county's parcel layer as published for its permit system. All 29 lots still offered were read from the storefront, and each lot page for the county's figures. The lot page's total is net of exemptions, so we add the exemption back: the figure here is land plus improvements. Each parcel was matched to the county's parcel outlines by APN, 29 of 29, for the fire check (CAL FIRE's hazard zones and fire perimeters) and the road check (OpenStreetMap). Assessed value is a county figure, not a market appraisal: a screen, not a verdict. The lot pages do not say which roll year the values are from, and the parcel outlines are from the county's layer for the 2020 tax year.

What the tax deed clears, and what it leaves

Cleared by the sale

The delinquent taxes that put the parcel on this list
Mortgages and deeds of trust
Judgment liens, mechanic's liens and other private liens recorded before the sale

Still on the parcel after you buy it

Tax and assessment installments that come due after the sale
Special assessments that were not part of the amount owed, and the liens of any taxing agency that did not consent to the sale
Easements, water rights held separately from the land, and recorded restrictions
Recorded offers to dedicate the land to public use, and a taxing agency's recorded option to buy it
Unpaid 1915 Act improvement bonds and Mello-Roos special taxes that the sale proceeds do not cover
A federal tax lien the sale does not discharge. The IRS then has 120 days to redeem the parcel from the buyer

California Revenue and Taxation Code §3712. Each county reprints it in its sale terms, along with its own notes on code violations and other recorded claims.