I live in the Bay Area and know people who have left for El Dorado Hills, and they all tend to be conservative. The houses look nice and huge, but very cookie cutter. Not a lot of trees. I think El Dorado Hills is on SMUD, so they have fewer blackouts, but yeah, fire danger, and since you are closer to the mountains than the Bay Area, your air quality during fire season will be worse than near the coast. The people I know who moved there absolutely love it though.