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Burlingame neighborhoods, side by side
Each of our 8 Burlingame neighborhood guides in one table: its single-family homes, their median lot, and how many sit in FEMA flood, CAL FIRE fire and state earthquake zones, counted parcel by parcel from public records.
- neighborhoods8Boyenga Team guides
- homes counted6,312single-family lots
- median lot range4,960to 11,540 sq ft
- in a liquefaction zone1,68827% of homes counted
side by side
Every Burlingame neighborhood, side by side
One row per neighborhood guide. Select a column heading to sort; each name opens its guide.
| Burlingame Hills | 813lots | 11,5400.26 acre | 0 | 42652% · 80 very high | 182% | 16020% | 0 |
| Burlingame Park | 454lots | 7,4000.17 acre | 102% | 0 | 22650% | 0 | 0 |
| Burlingame Terrace | 749lots | 5,7100.13 acre | 18925% | 0 | 43258% | 0 | 0 |
| Downtown Burlingame | 33lots | 4,9600.11 acre | 0 | 0 | 824% | 0 | 0 |
| Easton Addition | 1,557lots | 5,9700.14 acre | 282% | 0 | 50232% | 1under 1% | 0 |
| Lyon Hoag & Burlingame Gardens | 1,220lots | 5,7100.13 acre | 0 | 0 | 13311% | 0 | 0 |
| Mills Estates | 736lots | 9,1600.21 acre | 0 | 46063% · 216 very high | 0 | 7110% | 0 |
| Ray Park & Burlingame Village | 750lots | 5,5400.13 acre | 253% | 0 | 36949% | 1under 1% | 0 |
Homes = single-family houses where the records identify them, otherwise lots zoned or coded single-family (marked “lots”). Percentages are shares of the homes counted in that neighborhood. The records here don’t publish year built or house size widely enough to show.
what stands out
What stands out
- Lot sizesMedian lots run from 4,960 sq ft in Downtown Burlingame to 11,540 sq ft (0.26 acre) in Burlingame Hills.
- Flood zones (FEMA)4 of the 8 neighborhoods have homes in a FEMA high-risk flood zone; the highest share is in Burlingame Terrace (189 of 749, 25%), followed by Ray Park & Burlingame Village (3%).
- Fire zones (CAL FIRE)2 of the 8 neighborhoods have homes with part of the lot in a fire hazard severity zone; the highest share is in Mills Estates (460 of 736, 63%), followed by Burlingame Hills (52%). 296 of the 886 homes are in Very High zones.
- Liquefaction zones7 of the 8 neighborhoods have homes in a liquefaction zone; the highest share is in Burlingame Terrace (432 of 749, 58%), followed by Burlingame Park (50%).
- Landslide zones4 of the 8 neighborhoods have homes in an earthquake-induced landslide zone; the highest share is in Burlingame Hills (160 of 813, 20%), followed by Mills Estates (10%).
- Fault zones (Alquist-Priolo)No counted home is in an Alquist-Priolo fault zone.
prices
What homes are selling for
Prices move every week, so they live on pages that read the MLS each time they load.
- Neighborhood RankingEach Burlingame neighborhood ranked by median price per square foot from the last 180 days of sales.
- Price per Sq Ft MapEvery recent Burlingame sale plotted where it happened, shaded by price per square foot.
the method
How we counted
- Neighborhoods
- Our Burlingame neighborhood guides, using the outline drawn for each guide (approximate; neighboring outlines can overlap). Guides with fewer than 20 counted homes are left out.
- Homes
- Single-family houses where the records identify them, otherwise lots zoned or coded single-family. Condos and townhomes are not counted. These are the same homes as on our Flood & Fire, Lot Size and Earthquake Zones pages.
- Lot size
- The median parcel lot area: the parcel record’s lot area where the source publishes one, otherwise the area of the mapped parcel outline. Approximate; confirm a parcel’s size with the county assessor or a title report.
- Flood
- FEMA high-risk flood zones (A, AE, AH or AO) at each parcel’s center, on FEMA’s flood maps as of October 2026.
- Fire
- Any part of the lot inside a CAL FIRE fire hazard severity zone (Moderate, High or Very High), counted once in its highest zone, on CAL FIRE’s current maps as of October 2026.
- Earthquake zones
- The California Geological Survey’s liquefaction, earthquake-induced landslide and Alquist-Priolo fault zones as published in October 2026, judged at each parcel’s center.
- Source for Burlingame
- San Mateo County parcel layer (use codes as of June 2020).
questions
Questions we hear
Which Burlingame neighborhood has the biggest lots?
Among our 8 Burlingame neighborhood guides, Burlingame Hills has the largest median lot, about 11,540 square feet (0.26 acre), and Downtown Burlingame the smallest, about 4,960 square feet. Lot sizes come from public parcel records as of October 2026.
Do any Burlingame neighborhoods have homes in a flood zone?
4 of the 8 neighborhoods have homes in a FEMA high-risk flood zone; the highest share is in Burlingame Terrace (189 of 749, 25%), followed by Ray Park & Burlingame Village (3%). That’s judged at each parcel’s center on FEMA’s maps as of October 2026.
Are any Burlingame homes in an earthquake fault zone?
None of the 6,312 homes counted in our Burlingame guides is in an Alquist-Priolo Earthquake Fault Zone. Strong shaking can still reach any home in the region.
Where can I see home prices by neighborhood?
Our Neighborhood Ranking page ranks each Burlingame guide by median price per square foot from the last 180 days of sales, live from the MLS, and the Price per Sq Ft Map plots each sale where it happened.
more to learn
Keep going
- Burlingame homes and neighborhoodsHomes for sale and the full list of our Burlingame neighborhood guides.
- Lot Size by NeighborhoodThe same lot sizes next to every other city’s neighborhoods.
- Flood & Fire ZonesFlood and fire zone counts with zone-by-zone detail.
- Earthquake ZonesLiquefaction, landslide and fault zone counts for 415 neighborhoods.
- Outside Mapped Hazard ZonesThe neighborhoods where no counted home sits in a flood, fire or earthquake zone.
- Earthquake Retrofit GrantsState grants to brace and bolt an older house on a raised foundation.
- Neighborhood RankingEach Burlingame neighborhood ranked by price per square foot, live from the MLS.
- Property Nerds Data LibraryThe datasets behind these numbers (PN-DS-27 to PN-DS-29) as CSV downloads.
Counts from public parcel records and FEMA, CAL FIRE and California Geological Survey maps as published in October 2026 (San Mateo County use codes as of June 2020). Neighborhood outlines are our own and approximate. Not a substitute for a property-specific report or the disclosures in a sale.
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