Crime in Fortuna, California
Major crime in Fortuna is 19% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fortuna for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Fortuna
The middle half of Fortuna residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 38 and 104; the typical (median) resident's is 78.
- 0–5032.5%
- 50–10036.7%
- 100–20022.3%
- 200–4008.5%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across California it fell 7.4%
Change in expected crimes, with California as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Fortuna against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
941 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fortuna; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fortuna has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rio Dell (7 mi), is about Fortuna's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fortuna
What are the most common crimes in Fortuna?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 61 a year), shoplifting (about 32 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 29 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Fortuna's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fortuna's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 30.7% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 12,070. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fortuna, California." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/ca/fortuna
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rio Dell7 mi77
- Pine Hills9 mi49
- Humboldt Hill10 mi55
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- Myrtletown15 mi88
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