Allendale, CA
How exposed is Allendale to wildfire?
USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities model puts Allendale at the 94th national percentile for risk to structures, in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally — a score built from 1,498 actual buildings. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Allendale at the 95th percentile, close to its 94th-percentile risk score.
Allendale's building exposure, zone by zone
Of Allendale's 1,498 counted buildings, 99.7% carry Direct exposure and only 0.1% carry Minimal — a lopsided split that puts defensible-space clearing ahead of vents or roofing as the intervention worth doing first.
How Allendale compares
Inside California, Allendale sits at just the 71st percentile even though it scores 94th nationally — the state's overall wildfire exposure is high enough to make this a relatively quiet corner of it. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Allendale ranks 1,879 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 9,177 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 451 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Allendale and the insurance market
Allendale's 94th-percentile score lands in California, the only two states requiring a wildfire disclosure at sale. California's surplus-lines homeowners market passed 300,000 policies for the first time in 2025, driven by carriers pulling back from wildfire-exposed areas statewide. The disclosure-law guide covers what it requires.
Hardening a home in Allendale
Because Direct exposure dominates in Allendale (99.7%), the highest-leverage fix is defensible space, not roofing or vents alone — covered in the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Allendale's 94th-percentile score and its burn-probability figure both come from the same USFS workbook, documented in the methodology guide. For more on what direct exposure implies beyond Allendale, see the exposure-zones guide.