We study the asymptotic geometry of the spin foam partition function for alarge class of models, including the models of Barrett and Crane, Engle,Pereira, Rovelli and Livine, and, Freidel and Krasnov. The asymptotics is taken with respect to the boundary spins only, noassumption of large spins is made in the interior. We give a sufficientcriterion for the existence of the partition function. We find that geometricboundary data is suppressed unless its interior continuation satisfies certainaccidental curvature constraints. This means in particular that most Reggemanifolds are suppressed in the asymptotic regime. We discuss this explicitlyfor the case of the configurations arising in the 3-3 Pachner move. We identifythe origin of these accidental curvature constraints as an incorrect twistingof the face amplitude upon introduction of the Immirzi parameter and propose away to resolve this problem, albeit at the price of losing the connection tothe SU(2) boundary Hilbert space. The key methodological innovation that enables these results is theintroduction of the notion of wave front sets, and the adaptation of tools fortheir study from micro local analysis to the case of spin foam partitionfunctions.