Allensworth, CA
Allensworth wildfire risk explained
USFS scores Allensworth at the 92nd national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (in USFS's highest wildfire-risk band nationally), a figure built from 294 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
USFS's separate burn-probability score — fire likelihood alone, before counting what's built there — puts Allensworth at the 94th percentile, close to its 92nd-percentile risk score.
What "at risk" means for the buildings here
Direct exposure dominates in Allensworth: 100% of its 294 buildings, versus 0% Indirect and 0% Minimal. Clearing space around a structure changes the outcome here more than any single building-material swap.
How Allensworth compares
Allensworth's 92nd national percentile looks worse in isolation than its 65th ranking inside California does — this place is on the milder end for its own state, by 26 points. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Allensworth ranks 2,666 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 21,781 by building count (1 is largest). Within California alone, it ranks 548 of 1,570 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for California on its state page.
Shopping for coverage in Allensworth
Allensworth sits in California, one of two states that legally require a wildfire-risk disclosure at sale. California's FAIR Plan, the state's insurer of last resort, ended 2025 with 668,609 residential policies after adding 21,859 in Q4 alone — the kind of market shift a 92nd-percentile score like Allensworth's can end up mattering for. More on the disclosure law.
Hardening a home in Allensworth
With 100% of Allensworth in Direct exposure, defensible-space clearing and ember-resistant construction (vents, Class-A roofing) address the exposure this page's own numbers describe, not a generic checklist. See the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Allensworth's 92nd-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 Allensworth, see the exposure-zones guide.