Emergency Biohazard Cleanup Services in Fair Oaks, CA

Fair Oaks is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Sacramento County, bordered on the south by the American River and the American River Parkway.

Fair Oaks was founded in 1895 as a citrus colony — one of the 'Sunset Colonies' promoted by Chicago's Howard-Wilson Publishing Company, whose owners bought land from the old 1844 Rancho San Juan Mexican land grant and marketed it to Midwestern professionals after freezes wrecked groves in Florida and Southern California.

The Fair Oaks Fruit Company, incorporated in 1902, built a warehouse and exported not just citrus but also almonds and olives, and a 1901 bridge over the American River — still known locally as the Red Bridge — tied the colony to Sacramento.

Back-to-back freezes in 1932 and 1934 destroyed most of Fair Oaks' citrus groves at the height of the Great Depression, and the former citrus colony gradually transformed into a leafy bedroom community of greater Sacramento.

Fair Oaks' population was 32,514 at the 2020 census, up from 30,912 in 2010.

Fair Oaks has about 13,434 households, averaging 2.39 people each, and roughly two-thirds of its homes are owner-occupied.

Fair Oaks Village is famous for its free-roaming chickens — a flock of roughly 200 birds that has wandered the town center since the 1970s, crossing roads at their leisure and treated by locals as beloved mascots with the right-of-way.

Every September Fair Oaks celebrates its flock with the annual Fair Oaks Chicken Festival, and the village also hosts the Fair Oaks Fiesta and Car Show and the Fair Oaks Theatre Festival at the Veterans Memorial Amphitheatre.

Fair Oaks has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate softened by the evening 'delta breeze' from the San Francisco Bay, with about 18.5 inches of rain a year, hot dry summers, and dense winter tule fog.

Fair Oaks' protected Phoenix Vernal Pools preserve habitat for the endangered Sacramento Orcutt grass, a plant found almost nowhere else on Earth.